“The Red Sox win the World Series”. A sentence that over the decades acquired the status of a semantic anomaly is now a simple, delicious truth. Yes!
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Congratulations for this sensational victory!!
Offtopic: You paper Evidence for Presuppositional Indefinites appeared in Brian Weatherson’s Online Papers in Philosophy site today (the 27th of October).
October 28th, 2004, at 1:50 am #One day after this moment of glory for the Red Sox fans, one semantic issue seems to be linked to the news above:
There are some people reacting to Brian Weatherson’s sentence
The argument is that the name World Series is misnamed, for only Canadian and American teams play therein.
Well, as a man from a Country where the only variant of baseball is not played professionally, I have to say that the argumentation would be correct, were it not one simple fact: that this is the World Series of the Major Baseball League. Whenever tv news in other Countries mention it, they stress the Major Baseball League part. It is the same about the FIFA World Cup: it has to be stressed that it is the World competition of the FIFA, which is held between National selected Teams and not club teams. There is also the World Inter-clubs competition. Thus, in football one often may concomitantly claim that
Some years ago, there were two National Series in Brazil, due to a secession in the Brazilian Football Confederacy, which created a second National League, wherefor there were two teams claiming to be National champions. Of course, everyone understood they won differrent competitions.
So, Brian Weatherson’s sentence is ok, for it is implicit that he is talking about the MLB. Now, the question of why doesn’t the MLB include teams from Venezuela, Japan or other Countries? is not up to him. It is up to the governing body of the MLB to answer.
October 28th, 2004, at 3:13 pm #