Two women wearing the same dress is sometimes a criminal matter.
Two blondes, one dress – a recipe for a catfight
Drinks were thrown and blood was spilt when two blondes clashed in a bar about who looked best in a silver dress, a jury has been told.
Victoria Clapham, 22, wore the dress on a night out in central Wellington late last year. It was given to her by her friend Matthew Vibert and his mother – but she says she did not know he had previously given it to another woman.
Its first owner, Bridget Masters, 20, was Mr Vibert’s former girlfriend, and sparks flew when the two blondes crossed paths in the toilets at the former Temperance Bar on November 28.
In Wellington District Court yesterday Ms Clapham denied telling Masters that the dress looked better on her. The dress is not an exhibit in court and was not photographed for the jury to see.
I Googled “two women wearing the same dress”.
I found this
and this
and this
but I couldn’t find a picture of two women wearing the same dress. The very same dress.
Your search – “two women wearing the very same dress” – did not match any image results.
In philosophy, we call the distinction between the same dress and the very same dress the type–token distinction.
the type–token distinction is a distinction that separates a concept from the objects which are particular instances of the concept. For example, the particular bicycle in your garage is a token of the type of thing known as “The bicycle.” Whereas, the bicycle in your garage is in a particular place at a particular time, that is not true of “the bicycle” as used in the sentence: “The bicycle has become more popular recently.”
You can own a bicycle (token). But you can’t own the bicycle (type). You can own an instance of a concept. But you can’t own a concept.
Advocates of so-called “intellectual property” would claim otherwise. They believe in patents. ‘Patent’ is basically a euphemism for a government granted and enforced monopoly. Were the government to grant you a patent on the bicycle, it would place a restriction on the freedom of everyone else to do what he wishes with his own property. (E.g., if you patent a bike, then that means I can’t use my steel and rubber to make my own bike!)
Concepts are mental entities. The ‘bicycle’ concept exists in the mind/brain of everyone who knows what a bicycle is. The ‘bicycle’ concept is part of me, and I claim ownership, because I claim self-ownership. You have a patent on the bicycle? Sorry, mate. Your freedom ends where my nose begins. On yer bike!
[Hat tip: David Peterson]
I leave it as an exercise for the reader …
Thanks for the hat (dress?) tip!
As you gave permission earlier by email I’ve shared it now with a wider audience:
http://pirateparty.org.nz/2012/05/10/discussion-point-two-women-wearing-the-same-dress/
Cheers!
You are suggesting you have ownership of the ‘bicycle’ concept.
Is this the problem?
… to spot the logical problem(s) in my post.
Yes, the apparent problem is that I suggest that I have ownership of the ‘bicycle’ concept and I also say, “But you can’t own a concept.”
The real problem is that the bicycle ‘concept’ is ambiguous between
(a) that which all bicycles have in common in virtue of which they are bicycles, and
(b) a mental representation of the bicycle.
Now that the ambiguity in ‘concept’ is resolved, the problem goes away. No one owns “that which all bicycles have in common in virtue of which they are bicycles” but everyone owns his own mental representation of the bicycle.
Take two extreme views on what constitutes “that which all bicycles have in common in virtue of which they are bicycles,” Platonism and nominalism. According to Platonism, that which all bicycles have in common in virtue of which they are bicycles is that they all partake of the Platonic form of the bicycle. No one can own Platonic forms. According to nominalism, that which all bicycles have in common in virtue of which they are bicycles is that they are members of the set of all bicycles. No one can own membership of a set.
No one can own the bicycle (type). Anyone can own a bicycle (token). So I have argued!
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