tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345275.post109079212668367296..comments2023-10-30T11:13:44.310-04:00Comments on The Ethical Werewolf ‡ by Neil Sinhababu : Imagining that Soames is TysonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345275.post-1138052346162512872006-01-23T16:39:00.000-05:002006-01-23T16:39:00.000-05:00You have obviously not met Scott Soames. Soames do...You have obviously not met Scott Soames. <BR/><BR/>Soames does not need to "slim down" in order to go from being Tyson back to being Scott Soames. The guy could probably bench Tyson.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345275.post-1090861443217587572004-07-26T13:04:00.000-04:002004-07-26T13:04:00.000-04:00Jeff, when I originally wrote the post, I thought ...Jeff, when I originally wrote the post, I thought it'd be impossible for there to be a world in which Soames was Tyson. Then I realized that there's a vanishingly small probability that in <I>our</I> world, Soames is Tyson. Maybe Tyson actually is Soames' alter ego, like Spiderman and Peter Parker. Perhaps Soames drinks a potion every now and then which turns him black and muscular and gives him a strange voice but lowers his intelligence. He boxes, and later the potion wears off, and he goes back to being the Soames we all know and love. This is hugely improbable, of course, but it shows you what it would mean for Soames to be Tyson. This is the 'double life' thing I was talking about, and I don't see why it's metaphysically impossible.Neil Sinhababuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15672033745772751532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7345275.post-1090823681847217552004-07-26T02:34:00.000-04:002004-07-26T02:34:00.000-04:00I love the blog.
As far as "proper names work[ing...I love the blog.<br /><br />As far as "proper names work[ing] as definite descriptions", I like the cases like "more British than the British" where something is said to be more X-like than that which is defined as X. Another example, without proper nouns, is that people rate the face of a [computer] average[d] woman as attractive, but they rate the face of a more womanly woman as more attractive. In this case, "womanliness" is defined mathematically in terms of facial characteristics that differentiate the typical woman from the typical man.<br /><br />-DanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com