Deeds and Words
“‘There really are fictional heroes’ sounds true, but ‘Fictional heroes really exist’ sounds false.” – James Cargile, Paradoxes, 1979
“‘There really are fictional heroes’ sounds true, but ‘Fictional heroes really exist’ sounds false.” – James Cargile, Paradoxes, 1979
Let us consider this pair of cases: In the first, Smith stands to gain a large inheritance if anything should happen to his six-year-old cousin. One evening while the child is taking his bath, Smith sneaks into the…