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Will_Sawin comments on A Defense of Naive Metaethics - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: Will_Sawin 09 June 2011 05:46PM

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Comment author: Will_Sawin 23 June 2011 02:13:51PM *  0 points [-]

It's sort of subtle.

"Whatever's written in the book at the location given by this formula: "

defines a word totally in terms of other words, which I would call intensional.

"Whatever's written in THAT book, point point"

points at the meaning, what I would call extensional.