{"id":6751,"date":"2016-01-01T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T16:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/01\/01\/people-guns-and-reference\/"},"modified":"2016-01-01T16:39:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T16:39:00","slug":"people-guns-and-reference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/01\/01\/people-guns-and-reference\/","title":{"rendered":"People, Guns, and Reference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I had the pleasure of Dale Tuggy&#39;s presence here for a couple of days.&#0160; He got off a neat comparison that hadn&#39;t occurred to me, but one I fully endorse:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Just as guns don&#39;t kill people, but people kill people using guns, so too words don&#39;t refer to things, but people refer to things using words.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the pleasure of Dale Tuggy&#39;s presence here for a couple of days.&#0160; He got off a neat comparison that hadn&#39;t occurred to me, but one I fully endorse: Just as guns don&#39;t kill people, but people kill people using guns, so too words don&#39;t refer to things, but people refer to things using &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/01\/01\/people-guns-and-reference\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;People, Guns, and Reference&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,181,408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-aphorisms-by-others","category-language-philosophy-of"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6751","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=6751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}