{"id":66,"date":"2008-04-15T12:37:39","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T04:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/15\/does-justice-have-anything-to-do-with-a-disobedient-whale\/"},"modified":"2008-04-15T12:37:39","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T04:37:39","slug":"does-justice-have-anything-to-do-with-a-disobedient-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/15\/does-justice-have-anything-to-do-with-a-disobedient-whale\/","title":{"rendered":"Does justice have anything to do with a disobedient whale?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/linglaw.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/if.html\">resist<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now consider again Skinner&#8217;s sentence:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Justice is not a frivolous thing, Simpson. It has little if anything to do with a disobedient whale.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This seems amenable to a quantificational analysis: the set of situations in which justice has anything to do with a disobedient whale is a subset of the set of situations in which justice has little to do with a disobedient whale. Equivalently, there are no situations in which justice has anything to do with a disobedient whale, in which justice doesn&#8217;t have little to do with a disobedient whale.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier today I read one of the weekly emails from my VP and found myself thinking, there are some things that really don&#8217;t make a lot of sense without context and sound very strange and funny when presented alone. And I think justice not having anything to do with a disobedient whale is definitely one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t resist: Now consider again Skinner&#8217;s sentence: Justice is not a frivolous thing, Simpson. It has little if anything to do with a disobedient whale. This seems amenable to a quantificational analysis: the set of situations in which justice has anything to do with a disobedient whale is a subset of the set of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}