While the group was initially unable to confirm that water is H2O on Twin Earth, the results turned out to be due to contaminated research materials—one of the researchers’ minds had been contaminated by Chomskyan internalist semantics.
fauxphilnews: Kripke resigns as report alleges he faked results of thought experiments
"There is an urban legend that ..." is usually self-fulfilling.
Want je kunt niets zeker weten en alles gaat voorbij
"It's hard to explain, but, for me, just aiming a speely input device, or a Farspark chambre, or whatver you call it ..."
"A speelycaptor."
"... at something doesn't collect what is meaningful to me. I need someone to gather it in with all their senses, mix it round in their head, and make it over into words."
Neal Stephenson: Anathem
There is no cloud, just other people's computers.
