It has been a month and the transporter-accident illustration is still bothering me. In fact, this entire rave is going places that I had not anticipated. Let recap and vary the illustration a bit. Lieutenant William …

I have two main problems with what had a notion of identity that I had worked on in passing for a number of years. Ideas, even supremely bad ones, are powerful things not easily dismissed by those who have given them sa…

I have stated elsewhere that modal logic (or at least possible-world talk) serves more as a negative test to metaphysical ideas than as a demonstration of a given position. In the previous rave, I presented a very brief…