"earthlings" - 1 õppematerjal

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a numerically different person.) 60 Reference and referring I said that Twin Earth is a nearly exact duplicate of Earth. There is one dif- ference: what looks and behaves like water on Twin Earth is not water--that is, H 2O--but a different substance that Putnam calls XYZ. XYZ is odorless and tasteless and has the other superficial properties that water does, but it is only "fool's water" (as in "fool's gold"). Of course, the Twin-English- speaking Twin Earthlings call the XYZ "water," since they are otherwise just like us,13 but that is an equivocation; "water" in Twin English means XYZ, not water, just as (I am told) the kind term "chicory" in British English means a different plant from the one meant by the same word in American English. Now, consider a pair of transworld twins, say Gordon Brown and Twin Gordon. After a natural disaster, Brown emphasizes the urgency of getting food and water to the victims