On Thursday, February 28, 2013 8:01:48 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > On 2/28/2013 4:11 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > On Thursday, February 28, 2013 5:37:50 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: >> >> On 2/28/2013 1:50 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: >> >> You have no way of knowing what I can't know about you either. >> >> >> You have no way of knowing what ways I have of knowing what you know >> about what ways John knows of having ways of knowing about what you can >> know...either. :-) >> >> Brent >> blather, n. strings of words in the form of assertions having no testable >> consequences. >> > > Calling it blather doesn't change the fact that you can't make an > omniscient claim against someone else's non-omniscience. > > > But I can make an empirically informed one. >
That means that you claim to have empirical information about consciousness beyond another person's information about their own consciousness. How can you claim to have that at the same time that you claim someone else can't? Craig > > Brent > strawman, n. a misstatement or exaggeration of an opponents position in > order to make it easier to refute. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
