(April 25, 2016 at 4:57 pm)SteveII Wrote:(April 25, 2016 at 4:24 pm)Nihilist Virus Wrote: I agree that in your example the cube was not assigned the property of being wood by my actions, but it clearly wasn't a cube before, and yet now it is, and so those are new properties that came about because of my actions. How is that not assigning properties?
The object's properties changed once you reached the already established definition of a cube. Assign means designate. You can't designate it a cube. It is either a cube or it is not--independent of your desires or wishes. You could have made a cube by accident or not know what a cube was. It would still have the properties of being a cube.
I'm not talking about desire or intent. I'm talking about actions. The act of making a cube is the same as the act of rearranging previously existing material so that it has the properties of a cube. Hence, in this instance the act is assigning the properties of a cube.
Jesus is like Pinocchio. He's the bastard son of a carpenter. And a liar. And he wishes he was real.
