jonathan7

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"In a story I read a few years ago, there were fake men, insect-men. They looked like men, walked like men, bought groceries like men, but were not-men. The interesting thing about the not-men was that they were demonstrably different from men; they were just disguised insects. They were discovered and flew away with their insect-wings. But Russel, here, seems to be suggesting that it is possible that there would never be a discernible difference between a real-chair and (ostensibly) a not-chair. A strange point! Are we just playing with names here? "A" = A, "B" = A, but "A" =/= "B", because it's "A"! In any case, a chair by any other name is just as comfortable."