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John: > 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. Okay. I withdraw that. > > 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. It has to be noncompositional because I can count centres (centre of Earth, centre of Moon, centre of an apple, etc.). Since the centre of the Earth is indubitably pa centre be da, I conclude that it is pa centre of the Earth too. --And.