On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Terren Suydam <[email protected]> wrote:
> > the step 3 argument I and others are making is a lot easier to defend than > your position, > It's very easy to defend as long as lots and lots of personal pronouns are used, they're a wonderful dumping ground for sloppy thinking. > >> >> Case #1: Nobody, absolutely nobody can observe more than one Terren >> Suydam, not even Terren Suydam. >> Case #2: Everybody, absolutely everybody can observe an unlimited number >> of Terren Suydams, including Terren Suydam. >> Coherently explain how these 2 cases are equivalent and Terren Suydam >> has won the argument and John Clark will change John Clark's ideas on the >> subject. >> > > > I've already agreed that the two scenarios are *not* equivalent from the > third-person perspective, but they *are* equivalent from the first-person > perspective. > In case #1 Terren Suydam can find only one person who has the right to be called Terren Suydam , in case #2 Terren Suydam can find an unlimited number of people who have an equal right to be called Terren Suydam . How are these 2 cases equivalent to Terren Suydam ? And if that isn't " the first-person perspective " what is? 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.
