On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 3:30 AM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > There are much more interesting objections to Bruno's proof than the one > you cite, which appears to be, at best, a semantic quibble. >
I assume you're referring to Bruno's irresponsible use of personal pronouns, and that is far more than a quibble, it strikes at the very core of his ideas. The entire point of Bruno's "proof" and accompanied thought experiments is to make words like "I" and "you" and "he" crystal clear. In our normal everyday world such words have little ambiguity; but in a world where matter duplication machines exist ( and the only reason we don't have such machines already is engineering difficulties not scientific difficulties) such words have a LOT of ambiguity. Nevertheless from the very beginning Bruno assumes that even after the duplication everything has already been cleared up and so he says stuff like "you will see this" and "he will predict that". It is not allowed to assume what you're trying to prove. John K Clark -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
