catastro thinks that coricocat is the greatest fellow contributor on the blog, but he has no view about Angelina Jolie (he doesn't realise that this is in fact coricocat's real name). that means that coricocat has a property that Angelina Jolie lacks - the property of being thought by catastro to be the greatest fellow contributor on the blog - so, according to Leibniz's law, coricocat is not the same person as Angelina Jolie. But she is, so something has gone wrong with the argument. The problem is due to the so-called masked woman fallacy: I don't know who the masked woman is; I know who my sister is; therefore my sister is not the masked woman. The root of the fallacy is that subjective views or beliefs about something are not real properties of that thing: you can know something under different descriptions, just as different people can have different beliefs about the same thing.
the condensed idea - what is it like to be a drunk paranoid-scizophrenic computer-program called catastro thinking about Angelina Jolie dressed up as batwoman?
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