Re: SUO: intention vs. extension again
Leo,
I apologize for the ad hominem remark.
>Oh, come on, John, you do not need to resort to ad hominem slurs,
>especially in this forum where we countenance all sorts of folly,
>tomfoolery, and speciousness.
I don't believe that at all. He is certainly brilliant,
but he hasn't done his homework.
>I believe David Lewis in fact to be one of
>our greatest recent philosophers of language and one of few instrumental
>in shedding a guiding light on many acres of the field of semantics.
His light has guided a lot of people, but unfortunately,
not in the right direction.
>Also there is a notion among some philosophers that you should always
>try
>to reify what you posit as a technical device, if only to see where your
>epistemological pants fray.
I am happy with the idea of reifying posits. But that is
a different issue from the problems involved here.
John