I hesitate to answer the question because this is not my view. (I’m no fan of propositions.) But also because identity has its home with objects. If, as I have been suggesting the view might assume, a fact is not an object, then the question might be inapt.
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The conservatives quote in the CNN article are not concerned about justice. They worry that Patel lacks what it takes to fully abuse the FBI powers.
FBI Director Kash Patel.
‘It’s unacceptable’: Inside growing concerns about Patel’s FBI leadership | CNN Politics
Stepping to the microphone at a news conference Friday morning in Utah, FBI Director Kash Patel wasted no time explaining what led to the capture of a suspect in the murder of conservative activist Ch...
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They refer to a fact. You are a philosophy and so am I. But your being a philosopher is not the same as my being one. (Facts are not objects. And so not people. And not propositions.) I agree that not much might turn on this.
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It is P’s being true. That is, it’s having the property of being true. A fact is, in this idea, not a proposition that is true, but a proposition’s being true. But all this is deep in the weeds
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There is something to the argument though. It certainly seems that facts are not objects and so cannot be modified objects. But this is hoary stuff.
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What’s the next page? Where does the argument trace back to?
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The most important thing about Charlie Kirk is that Trump is all over the Epstein files.
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Beautiful! And that’s a fact!
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A basket of deplorables
Elon Musk spoke by video to Tommy Robinson's anti-immigrant rally in the UK today.
"You're in a fundamental situation here where, whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you," said Musk. "You either fight back or you die."
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Yet more evidence for my view. Thanks.
