Re: Object IDs are good ( was: Object IDs are bad )

[Lennart Augustsson <augustss@cs.chalmers.se>]

wilson@cs.utexas.edu (Paul Wilson) writes:
> Matthias Blume <blume@mocha.cs.princeton.edu> wrote:
> >   - Things that _actually_ look the same in each and every
> >     respect_are_ the same.
> 
> No.  This is bad philosopy.  Things that are indistinguishable
> given a certain subjective point of view may become distinguishable
> when you learn more about them.
Do you have a problem with reading? :-)
Matthias Blume wrote "in each and every respect"; how can something
look the same "in each and every respect" and then be "distinguishable
when you learn more about them"?  If objects can be distinguished when
you learn more about them then they were not equal in each and every
respect.

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        -- Lennart Augustsson
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