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标题：Replies
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作者：Eris Olson
期刊名称：Abstracta: Linguagem, Mente e Acao
印刷版ISSN：1807-9792
出版年度：2008
卷号：2008
期号：01
出版社：Abstracta
摘要：Whenever I try to talk about Baker¡¯s philosophy I find it hard to know where to start. We disagree about so many things. We even disagree about how to describe each other¡¯s views. When I read Baker¡¯s description of my views, I find myself wanting to say, ¡°No! that¡¯s not what I think,¡± or at best, ¡°That¡¯s a misleading and tendentious description of my view.¡± And when she reads my description of her views, she has precisely the same reaction. For example, Baker says that ¡°Olson¡¯s ontology doesn¡¯t mention persons¡±1 (or, in ordinary English, people). That sounds like I deny the existence of people, which I don¡¯t. The truth behind her shocking headline is that on my view people have the same identity conditions as certain things that aren¡¯t people: for instance cats.