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Swampman is the subject of a philosophical thought experiment introduced by Donald Davidson in his 1987 paper "Knowing One's Own Mind". In the experiment, Davidson is struck by lightning in a swamp and disintegrated; simultaneously, an exact copy of Davidson, the Swampman, is made from a nearby tree and proceeds through life exactly as Davidson ...
The Legend Of Shelby The Swamp Man is an American reality television series that premiered on August 6, 2013, on History as a spin-off to the series Ax Men. [1] The program follows the life of Shelby Stanga when he's not logging. [2]
Goines was born in Detroit, Michigan on December 15, 1936. His parents were a middle-class Black Catholic couple that ran a laundry business. His mother Myrtle Goines told Goines that her family was descended from Jefferson Davis and a woman who was enslaved.
Swampman is an imaginary character introduced by Donald Davidson. If Davidson goes hiking in a swamp and is struck and killed by a lightning bolt while nearby another lightning bolt spontaneously rearranges a bunch of molecules so that, entirely by coincidence, they take on exactly the same form that Davidson's body had at the moment of his ...
The substance of Davidson/swampman is indistinguishable at any scale. The only difference between this Davidson/swampman and the original Davidson is that for a period of time between the two lightning strikes Davidson did not exist; the original Davidson existed since birth without interruption. The new Davidson has a gap in his existence.
The skunk ape is a large and hairy human-like mythical creature purported to inhabit the forests and swamps in the southeastern United States, most notably in Florida. [5] [6] It is often compared to, synonymous with, or called the "cousin" of Bigfoot, a prominent subject within North American popular culture.
A swamp monster (also variously called a swamp creature, swamp man, or muck monster) [1] is a fictional or mythological creature imagined to lurk in a swamp.Some swamp monsters resemble aquatic creatures, others aquatic plants and moss.
Donald Davidson uses the thought experiment of Swampman to advocate for semantic externalism. Kripke in Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language provides a rule-following paradox that undermines the possibility of our ever following rules in our use of language and, so, calls into question the idea of meaning. Kripke writes that this paradox ...