1. The main reason for believing proper names are directly referential is that there are beings in other possible worlds that are (for example) dangerzooey.

2. The main reason for believing dangerzooey exists in other possible worlds is that it was possible for things to happen to me other than those that do happen to me. (If it were not so possible, those things in ( Read more... )

Dangerzooey's Law #1:

The Ought-Is FallacyYou may be familiar with the naturalistic fallacy, the is-ought fallacy, but this is another fallacy entirely. The ought-is fallacy is committed by such diverse thinkers as Plato, Berkeley, Hobbes, G.E. Moore, Roderick Chisholm, Richard Taylor, Peter Van Inwagen, most Kantians, all Hegelians, and nearly ( Read more... )

I know it's been a while since I've been in grade school, but still, I thought someone would've told me that they made a new ocean. Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Southern. Next thing you know, they'll be telling me there are now twenty continents.