On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 4:23 AM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >> Bruno >> >> Marchal >> >> will respond to this by saying John Clark is >> >> forgetting >> >> (or confusing) >> >> the 1p - 3p distinction, and in explaining the 1p - 3p distinction >> >> Bruno Marchal >> >> will make extensive use of the future perfect tense and of course of the >> personal pronoun "you" > > > > > Not "you", but 1-yous or 3-you. > > And that is enough to get the non ambiguous conclusion. > Oh that makes things much clearer! You refers to the you that think's he's you, but 1-yous refers to the 1-yous that thinks he's 1-yous. Thanks a lot. > > > You are the one coming back with "you" without the needed precision, due > to the duplication. > John Clark has no need to precisely define the word "you" because John Clark has no need to use that or any other personal pronoun to explain John Clark's ideas but instead can simply use a proper noun. By contrast Bruno Marchal can not do that because the inherent ambiguity the word "you" will always have if a "you" duplicating machine is going to be used on "you" in the future is the only thing that disguises the underlying silliness of Bruno Marchal's ideas. 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
