On 6/18/2015 10:07 AM, John Clark wrote:
> If in Helsinki you predict "I will see both W and M", BOTH reconstituted
persons
will have to write "I was wrong: I definitely see only one city".
If the word "I" is just an abbreviation for "Bruno Marchal" in the above then the
replacement could be made and there would be no change to the meaning of the sentence,
but instead it takes on an entirely different flavor and there would be absolutely no
reason for either the Moscow Man or the Washington Man to say "Bruno Marchal was wrong"
or "Bruno Marchal sees only one city". Thus the word "I" must be carrying a lot of
hidden assumptions and excess baggage that the word "Bruno Marchal" does not.
It does. "I" is indicial and in a world with duplicated proper nouns is not equivalent to
a proper noun.
Brent
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