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Friday, March 15, 2013

Grice's Unmarried Man (Is: Bachelor) -- "creature with a heart", "creature with a kidney" (coextensional) -- example also by Quine.

Speranza

Quine:

"There is no assurance here that the extensional agreement of 'bachelor' and 'unmarried man' rests on meaning rather than merely on accidental matters of fact, as does extensional agreement of 'creature with a heart' and 'creature with a kidney.'"

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