> > The only reason anyone might object to that would be if there was > > already a widespread understanding that > > <http://www.whitehouse.gov/#43> denotes "The 43rd President of the > > U.S." > > But even so, one might want to argue that "The 43rd President of the U.S." > is not George W. Bush. Requiring a common, fixed denotation for all URI > references would eliminate this possibility. (Unless, of course, > you meant > that there was some sort of intensional denotation here.) There is a difference between the concept "43rd President of the U.S." and the concept (oh if he were only a concept...) of "George W. Bush", and that those two things are the same. Identifying <http://www.whitehouse.gov/#43> with the former concept does not prevent us from saying that Gore is 43rd President. However the band would start playing before you finished your speech...Received on Friday, 4 April 2003 07:13:58 GMT
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