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Comment by dfabulich

I think this is an example of the "answering machine paradox," which philosophers have been writing about since the 1970's.

https://philpapers.org/rec/SIDTAM

> According to an intuitive semantics for 'I,' 'here' and 'now,' 'I am not here now' should always be false when uttered. But occurrences of 'I am not here now' on an answering machine seem to be true (when the speaker is not home).

(If you're interested, you can google for "answering machine paradox" for more takes on it.)

parent dfabulich 2 years ago

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