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Friday, March 15, 2013

IN SYMBOLS: Grice's UNMARRIED MAN (Is: Bachelor)

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”Being a bachelor is the same thing as being an unmarried man” is given by identity of terms


(x) Bx <---> Ux & Mx


with B for ’bachelor’, U for ’unmarried’, and M for ’man’ -- all unary predicates.
 
Note the use of "iff"
 
the mark of "REDUCTIVE ANALYSIS", properly understood. Or not!
 
 

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