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"The Astute Andrew" <andyv...@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Feb 16, 6:33 pm, "Luc The Perverse"
> <sll_noSpamli...@cc.usu.edu> wrote:
>
>> > I've got better things to do.  Mostly looking at problems like the
>> > essential indexical.
>>
>> Do you really think I'm willing to expend the effort to google.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indexicality
>
> The problem of the essential indexical was proposed by the still-
> living Stanford professor John Perry in the article The Problem of the
> Essential Indexical (I never said that philosophy essay titles were
> creative).  In any event, the problem is about the analysis of beliefs
> and when a belief involves the indexical, it appears that the
> indexical cannot be analyzed away.
>
> Here's a brief example.  I believe that I am typing right now.  It
> does not appear that this belief (B) is equivalent to the belief (B')
> that "I believe that Andrew is typing right now."  Or, more
> accurately, if the two beliefs are equivalent, they are only
> equivalent because B' would suppose that I believe that I am Andrew,
> which reintroduces the indexical.  Thus, the problem of the essential
> indexical.
>
> On a side note, John Perry wrote another article on structured
> procrastination.

Actually that is rather interesting.

Useless - but interesting.

**Luc goes off to broaden his mind by doing interesting but useless Euler 
problems** (http://www.projecteuler.net/)

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LTP

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