On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 5:23 PM, omd <c.ome...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: >> Is "Abraham Lincoln" the name of a person? Yes it is. > > I'd say it's arguable - well, maybe a clearer example, since dead > persons can be considered persons (but aren't in Agora), is whether > "Bill Clinton" is the name of a world leader: the answer depends on > the context of the question, but can easily be no, it's the name of a > former world leader, who doesn't enjoy the same privileges as a "real" > world leader. I don't remember any CFJs related to this, do you have > one?
Ah, but at no point will the slave golem be a non-person. It will merely go from existing (as a person) to not, without passing through existence as a former person along the way. Mr. Clinton, meanwhile, still exists, and is not (currently) a world leader.
