Re: Digest Number 217

And Rosta scripsit:

> The singularity is contingent 

Whoa. What's contingent about it? *By definition* the presidency of the U.S.
is an office only one person holds at a time. If there could be two presidents
at the same time, we would have a different office altogether.

> To convince me, you'll need to find a noncompositional example whose
> singularity is not contingent on facts of the local world.

I don't see why it has to be noncompositional. "The center of the Earth"
is unambiguously non-contingently singular.

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