{"id":1100,"date":"2023-12-10T10:32:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T10:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/12\/10\/mirrors-again\/"},"modified":"2023-12-10T10:32:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T10:32:34","slug":"mirrors-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/12\/10\/mirrors-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirrors Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

London Ed sends the following:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2018this<\/em> mirror image of this<\/em> face\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s a referring expression which refers to something. Does it refer to the same thing as \u2018this face\u2019 refers to? If so, it is problematic.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

'This mirror image' does indeed refer to something. It refers to a mirror image. 'This face' also refers to something. It refers to the face of the man standing before the mirror and looking into<\/em> it (not at<\/em> it).  Now no one's face is identical to a mirror image.  (If there were no artificial or natural mirrors, there would be no mirror images, but there could still be faces of men and other animals.) <\/span><\/p>\n

So I say that the two demonstrative uses of 'this' have numerically different referents.  When I say 'this mirror image,' I point toward the mirror; when I say 'this face' I point toward my face. The two different directions of demonstration shows that the two occurrences of 'this' have numerically different referents.<\/span><\/p>\n

But knowing Ed, he has something up his sleeve; there is some puzzle in the offing. He needs to remind me what it is.<\/span><\/p>\n

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London Ed sends the following: \u2018this mirror image of this face\u2019 That\u2019s a referring expression which refers to something. Does it refer to the same thing as \u2018this face\u2019 refers to? If so, it is problematic. 'This mirror image' does indeed refer to something. It refers to a mirror image. 'This face' also refers to something. It refers … Continue reading “Mirrors Again”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","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=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}