Alicorn comments on Absolute denial for atheists - Less Wrong

39 Post author: taw 16 July 2009 03:41PM

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Comment author: Alicorn 18 July 2009 03:22:56AM 1 point [-]

Depending on whether you and I have the same working definition of "substantive", the following:

  • In the first statement, but not the second, the women are not "gotten" as an open-and-shut act of obtainment. They are only attracted (and that's assuming that the empirical claim is true).

  • In the first statement but not the second, the improvement to the person's attractiveness is described only as an improvement, not as a binary switch from not having extremely attractive women to having them.

  • In the second statement but not the first, the women singled out are a particular narrow group selected for that are implied to be the only ones of interest or import.