Posted: Aug 25, 2018 1:20 pm
scott1328 wrote:Teuton wrote:Mick wrote:1. No concrete individual could have been referred to before it existed.
This is equivalent to saying that we cannot refer to future things or events. But it seems we can. Can't I refer to my death or the 45th president of the USA?
(To say that the 45th president of the USA doesn't exist now is not to say that there doesn't exist now a person who will become the 45th president of the USA.)
I was digging through some old threads, and I can honestly say that in 2013, the person referred to as the 45th president then was anything like the person who holds that title now.
Was that an edit error, Scott? Did you mean "nothing like"?