On 09/28/2012 04:29 PM, Craig Daniel wrote: > 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.
Is John F. Kennedy a world leader?
