2006.11.07
Irony
From Naming and Necessity by Saul Kripke (a transcript of a lecture given on January 20, 1970):
What is Quine's famous example? If we consider the number 9, does it have the property of necessary oddness? Has that number got to be odd in all possible worlds? Certainly it's true in all possible worlds, let's say, it couldn't have been otherwise, that nine is odd. Of course, 9 could also be equally well picked out as the number of planets. It is not necessary, not true in all possible worlds, that the number of planets is odd. For example if there had been eight planets, the number of planets would not have been odd.
Posted by Luke at 12:54 p.m.
Took me a second.
Posted by Mike Graham on 2006.11.07 at 7:46 a.m.
Ha! I wonder if Dr. Burch has seen this.
Posted by Alan on 2006.11.07 at 2:58 p.m.
I read that book with Dr. Gert. However, I am sure Dr. Burch must have read it...whether this particular example has occured to him since a few months ago when it became relevant is beyond me.
Posted by Luke on 2006.11.08 at 1:12 a.m.
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