Re: Requesting some challenging sentences

--- Tim May <butsuri@...> wrote:

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>
> Certainly, most copular predicates are not
> equational.  But what about
> "Hesperus is Phosphorus"?
>
Is that a trick question? I'm assuming the speakers of
Soaloa know nothing of Frege or his puzzle, and might
have a verb of the sort "refers-to-the-same-object-as"
when it is the names that are being discussed, and
perhaps a verb like
"is-discovered-to-be-the-same-object-as", and whatever
other verbs are necessary to cover other
interpretations of Frege's statement.  Of course I'm
just making this up as I go along, so the real answer
is "I don't know."

Thanks for that question, by the way.  In Googling
that quote I discovered a lot of interesting and
informative articles to read about a controversy that
I (as an amateur) had been unaware of.

--gary