Re: An intuition pump

Le mardi, 23 sep 2003, à 01:15 America/Montreal, Bijan Parsia a écrit :

>>  If I say that marriage means a social union between two consenting 
>> adults, and Joe says that marriage is a pact between a man and a 
>> woman made before God, do Joe and I disagree about a question of fact 
>> or about the meaning of the word "marriage"? I think the latter is 
>> the only option that makes sense.
>
> Well, even if so, that's not the end of the story. Joe says that 
> joe:marriage rdfs:comment "a pact between a man and a woman made 
> before God" and I point out that, in fact, in his canonical ontology, 
> he wrote, "joe:marriage rdfs:comment "a unity between a man and a 
> woman made by God", what are we disagreeing about?

In the first case I guess you say that
	two persons (who I guess believe in one god) choose to make pact in 
front of their chosen god.
	====> Intention of persons
In the second case I guess you say that
	two persons (who I guess believe in one god, but it's not even sure) 
have been united by a god.
	====> Intention of a divinity.

I tried to understand the examples, if they are both not making sense 
for me because I don't believe in any kind of god or religion, but I 
tried to interpret assuming what could be said by someone who believes.

:)))

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