On Tue, 02 Jul 2002 15:47:39 +0000 "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com>
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> >On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Justin Schwartz wrote:
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> > > If you describe how a thing happens, then you have provided an
> >explanation.
> > > If you say merely that it always happens that way, you
> haven't--in my
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> > > and Hegel's.
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> > > jks
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> >How does the statement "water is always composed of water" differ
> >anayltically from the statement "water is always composed of H20"?
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> >-- Luke
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> One of this an a trivial analytical truth and the the other is an
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> discovery, an explanatory identification. Did you need me to say
> this? jks
Sounds like Luke may have been attempting to refer to Hilary Putnam's argument in his essay "Is It Necessary that Water is H20? " in *The Philosophy of A.J. Ayer*, with his defense of externalism and his Twin Earth argument. The again Like may have something else in mind.
Jim F.
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