> On Feb 14, 2017, at 10:28 AM, Benjamin Udell <[email protected]> wrote: > > You wrote, regarding universe of discourse, "Like you I tend to think most of > the debate on all this depends upon equivocation over terms." > > Actually I don't have an opinion on that, instead I thought that in the > particular discussion of unicorns, it depended on a sometimes tempting kind > of equivocation. We like ambiguities, puns, and so on. (Diving is okay, > sinking is not so good.) > I was more thinking of the problem of reference & generality with respect to fictional creatures. Or was that what you didn’t have an opinion on? As I said I think pragmatic maxim offers the solution here. Although that too has some oddities in how Peirce applied it. (Thinking here of his example of the Phoenix)
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