I’ve noted recently a certain zoological obsession on the part of formal semanticists. It’s not just formal semantics, it turns out, but philosophy of language in general. I hope, in fact, that this will turn into an irregular Friday feature (Friday being the day we usually have talks).

Today’s speaker, Herman Cappelen, told us that he could say that Stockholm is full of naked mole rats. (He didn’t, in fact, say that Stockholm was full of naked mole rats, but we all agreed that he could have said that, had he wished to.)

The link above goes to wikipedia, which has photos. And naked mole rats are quite possibly the most ugly rodents you could ever imagine. You have been warned.