If that's true, then 1=2 except .10%jim stone wrote:Dion is a man. Theon is the part of Dion that is
all of Dion but his left foot.
100 is a hundred. 90 is also 100 minus 10.
It's all names and numbers! What happened to Ockham's Razor?
I reckon it was traded in for a Norelco chromatic shaver. It's the price of sophistication--in its prime sense.Lorenzo wrote: What happened to Ockham's Razor?
I bef to digger.jim stone wrote:Similarly 'the morning star,' 'the evening star,'
and 'Venus' all denote the same object, in fact.
Right, but if the premises are deeply erroneous for a start, all you infer is a sophism.Jim Stone wrote:Russell said that in philosophy we begin with premises too obvious for anybody to deny them, and proceed by apparently inevitable inferences to conclusions too bizarre for anybody to believe them.
Posted: 23 Jun 2003 04:35 jim stone wrote:Theon is the part of Dion that is
all of Dion but his left foot.
See the difference?Posted: 23 Jun 2003 11:41 jim stone wrote: Theon is all of Dion but Dion's
left foot.
It's hard to see a problem.
Theon is all of Dion but Dion's left foot.
Nobody is saying that Dion = Theon
to the contrary, they are distinct,
today, before the amputation,
and tomorrow, after it.
History is not a physical property.Still they have some different properties:
Dion alone has the property that yesterday
he included a left foot as a part.
Therefore they are distinct.
Therefore there are two physical things
in the same place at the same time,
(which Chrysippus thinks is Koo Koo,
which is why this is called Chrysippus's Puzzle.)
This is an argument, with premises,
inferences, and a conclusion.
Pretty clever! I'd like to see that! When's your next appearance, or do you just show one? How is "I" different from "my body?"Jerry Freeman wrote:I am not identical with my body, though I at least appear to occupy the same space.