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endoself comments on Settled questions in philosophy - Less Wrong Discussion

32 Post author: lukeprog 16 February 2011 06:53AM

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Comment author: endoself 18 February 2011 07:49:24PM 0 points [-]

I agree with this. I do not know much about the philosophy of language, so I did not know that this was the consensus on the definitions of words like 'cat'.

I am not sure that there is a possible distinction in this case. It is metaphysically necessary that cats are necessary, but we have not proved it to be synthetic.