Thirty six years after the publication of "Don Quixote," which was known to all educated Europeans by that time, Descartes writes: "Now as far as ideas are concerned, if they are considered alone and in their own right, without being referred to something else, they cannot, properly speaking, be false.
Aristotle says: Things are called 'relative' if as such they are said to be of something else or to be somehow referred to something else.
No I didn't, I reply, referring to something else.
In other words, do your clothes refer to something else or only to themselves?
Thinking the letters must refer to something else, he asked the salesman what they meant.
Finally, the conviction that everything refers to something else generates codes and symbols, which is what generates Robert Langdon.
"For a long while almost everyone will continue to say 'film' when they are actually referring to something else," Alexander Horwath, the director of the Austrian Film Museum, noted.
They were abstract enough to let a painting be about itself, but specific enough to let it refer to something else.
He's referring to something else (propane, to be precise), but the point remains: this is urgent drama of the utmost import, its immense seriousness spelled out via unexplained explosions, body parts falling from the sky and a soundtrack comprised of SUDDEN NOISES that appear at times of NARRATIVE STRESS, lest anyone become distracted and turn over to ITV NEWS AT TEN WITH MARK AUSTIN.
Of course, Musk could be referring to something else entirely – we'll know by the end of next month what exactly Tesla has up its sleeve.
The problem is that if somehow knowing that the triangle has three sides makes 'triangle' in the statement refer to the Form, while believing that (same?) proposition makes it refer to something else, then the content of the two states is different, and the content of the states is different because, it seems, the objects of the two states are different.
