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  • Researchers have developed software allowing a robot to fold towels without human help, a feat previously not accomplished in robot history due to the complexity of handling non-rigid objects.

    Berkeley Researchers Create Towel-Folding Robot 2010

  • An expression is non-rigid if, when uttered in a fixed context, it varies its reference with the circumstances under which it is evaluated.

    Fitch's Paradox of Knowability Brogaard, Berit 2009

  • Accordingly, on this account, the quantified expression that Kp abbreviates is non-rigid.

    Fitch's Paradox of Knowability Brogaard, Berit 2009

  • There are two ways to rigidify a non-rigid definite description.

    Names Cumming, Sam 2009

  • Let our quantifiers range over persons, and let ˜i™ be the non-rigid designator ˜the inventor of bifocals™.

    Fitch's Paradox of Knowability Brogaard, Berit 2009

  • ¬ ˆƒ x ˆƒ t (Kxpt), for p in the knowability principle, he substituted for p a non-rigid designator, thereby altering the reference of the conjunction and perpetrating a modal fallacy.

    Fitch's Paradox of Knowability Brogaard, Berit 2009

  • Kvanvig proposes that quantified expressions are non-rigid.

    Fitch's Paradox of Knowability Brogaard, Berit 2009

  • ˆ§ ¬ ˆƒ x ˆƒ t (Kxpt), which says p is true but nobody ever knows that p. The quantified expression is, on this view, a non-rigid designator.

    Fitch's Paradox of Knowability Brogaard, Berit 2009

  • And so, even if Fitch's conjunction is an indexical expression, we have not been given a reason to think that it is non-rigid.

    Fitch's Paradox of Knowability Brogaard, Berit 2009

  • Analogously, even if quantified expressions are indexicals, it does not follow that they are non-rigid.

    Fitch's Paradox of Knowability Brogaard, Berit 2009

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