| In a message dated 2/13/2001 12:08:53 PM Central Standard Time,
arosta@uclan.ac.uk writes: I believe that pc was envisaging a solution along the lines of: Aside from some worries about using names for these people at all, I think -- barring problems I have not yet thought of (i.e., that no one has yet mentioned) that that is it. The fact that a coreferential can't be substituted for a name in a ka phrase seems to catch the crucial piece. But I do want to insist that being called Orcutt doesn't matter either (I think this tends toward view I). Thanks. (sorry about getting caught up in the fun stuff peripheral to the point at issue. If it soothes xod's monocosmia any, I should note tht for all the techno-logical apparatus I've been talking about, very little concrete results have emerged in a century. The best summary I can come up with is "You get back about what you put in" in ways obvious by now from the descriptions of how these worlds are set up.) |