[theapportioner]

Not trying to get any particular piece of information - just a thought exercise, and I wanted to see what people thought of it. This is a philosophy etc. board but usually there is very little actual philosophy discussed on it. Yes the ideas are quite old, and usually the distinction is taken as given. But WVO Quine criticized this distinction, showing that the boundaries are actually quite porous. I'd have to re-read the argument as I don't quite remember it, but I'm sure it's online somewhere.