{"id":10819,"date":"2011-03-24T14:53:43","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T14:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/03\/24\/if-you-existed-i-swear-id-divorce-you\/"},"modified":"2011-03-24T14:53:43","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T14:53:43","slug":"if-you-existed-i-swear-id-divorce-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/03\/24\/if-you-existed-i-swear-id-divorce-you\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I Swear, If You Existed, I&#8217;d Divorce You.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">If the recipient of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oxQAWQKVCRg&amp;NR=1\" target=\"_self\">this insult <\/a>had been a philosophy professor instead of a mere history&#0160; professor, he might have responded as follows.&#0160; &quot;Darling, by the Existence Symmetry of Relations, if a relation R holds, then either all of its relata exist or none of them do. Now one cannot divorce a person to whom one is not married.&#0160; So you and I stand in the marital relation.&#0160;&#0160;It follows that&#0160;if I don&#39;t exist, then you don&#39;t either.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the recipient of this insult had been a philosophy professor instead of a mere history&#0160; professor, he might have responded as follows.&#0160; &quot;Darling, by the Existence Symmetry of Relations, if a relation R holds, then either all of its relata exist or none of them do. Now one cannot divorce a person to whom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/03\/24\/if-you-existed-i-swear-id-divorce-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;I Swear, If You Existed, I&#8217;d Divorce You.&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[309,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-existence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}