tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719279.post116174311679284939..comments2023-10-25T10:16:23.924-04:00Comments on Invented Usage: identity crisisScotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18299970053622180647noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719279.post-1162234780313814692006-10-30T13:59:00.000-05:002006-10-30T13:59:00.000-05:00You lost me.It's true that any statement of identi...You lost me.<BR/><BR/>It's true that any statement of identity is a statement.<BR/><BR/>What do you mean when you say "'A is A' is not simply true of the referents"? Maybe you could get more concrete here, since I don't know what A is refering to here. Or actually--we could talk about "A is A" itself, but we'd have to be understanding A as a variable.<BR/><BR/>You completely lost me at:<BR/>- Sebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10513430642013001336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719279.post-1162193290531074362006-10-30T02:28:00.000-05:002006-10-30T02:28:00.000-05:00really good point, sebbut i think my point still s...really good point, seb<BR/><BR/>but i think my point still stands (or sits down and takes a load off and gets even chiller) because i'm willing to say "A is A" is not simply true of the referents either. because "A is A" is always an utterance. any statement of identity is always a statement. <BR/>moreover (and more importantly), any assertion of identity involves some representative act. and Cristihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09794033331046211307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5719279.post-1161751200836484862006-10-25T00:40:00.000-04:002006-10-25T00:40:00.000-04:00I think that analyzing "A is A" the way you have d...I think that analyzing "A is A" the way you have done does not do justice to the way philosophers mean it. Philosophers are not saying that the linguistic tokens that look like 'A' in each place are identical, but rather the referents of those tokens are.<BR/><BR/>Consider the sentence<BR/><BR/>"Hesperus is Phosphorus"<BR/><BR/>Nobody--not even logicians--would say that the word or utterance or Sebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10513430642013001336noreply@blogger.com