dxu comments on Hedonium's semantic problem - Less Wrong

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Comment author: dxu 19 April 2015 01:21:09AM 1 point [-]

The Sense/Reference distinction handles this all out of the box, without the assumption that only certain words have double meanings.

It also forces you to reject objects in virtual reality as "real".

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 19 April 2015 08:52:02AM 0 points [-]

News to me. How?