This afternoon I have to decide whether to watch Syracuse-Maryland or the Brumbies game that is broadcast at the same time. Decisions, decisions. Hopefully I can find some philosophically interesting things while watching. Here’s my first attempt. This a quote from the ad for Monday’s _CSI: Miami_.

bq. One crime scene is about to become two.

It’s a little controversial just what the logical form of this should be, but I think it’s something like the following.

bq. There is something that is a crime scene and very soon it will be two crime scenes.

I think we can distinguish _two crime scenes_ from _the scene of two crimes_, and the natural interpretation of the quote is that it is talking about two crime scenes.

The background is that someone steals evidence from a crime scene, making that patch of dirt into _another_ crime scene. But this is pretty strange, because here we have the one physical object, one patch of dirt, constituting _two_ things of the same ontological type. (Whatever ontological type a crime scene is.) So in one ad we have folk support for both

bq. (a) temporary identity; and
(b) co-locationism.

If TV is this interesting all afternoon I might _have_ to spend all afternoon in front of the screen.