[lit-ideas] Re: When Water Wasn't Wet

  • From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 10:47:23 EDT

In a message dated 7/7/2009 10:16:20 A.M.  Eastern Daylight Time, 
pastone@xxxxxxxxx writes:
H2O is dihydrogen monoxide  -- i.e. water.

0K.

So you said it: We should call it 'dihydrogen  monoxide'. King Alfred 
couldn't -- but we _can_. And this kills the odious  ambiguity of skating on 
the 
pond.

---- Strawson loved the  example,

"The ice is thin"

as a _warning_, not an assertion. I never understood  him, the relentless 
literalist in me.

Cheers,

JL  Speranza
Buenos Aires, Argentina.  

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