On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 12:00 AM, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote:
> > There is a problem with asking "which one place will John Clark be in > tomorrow", because there will be two of them, in two different places. > True. Today before the duplication there is only one "John Clark" but tomorrow after the duplication there will be two, therefore it is not a question, it is just a sequence of words that follow the rules of grammar correctly but mean nothing. However "How many cities will John Clark be in tomorrow?" is a real question that has a real answer, and its two. > > There is no such problem with asking "which one place will I be in > tomorrow". False. Today before the duplication there is only one "I" but tomorrow after the duplication there will be two, therefore it is not a question , it is just a sequence of words that follow the rules of grammar correctly but mean nothing. And "How many cities will I be in tomorrow?" is not a question either. > > > The original John Clark would be wrong if he bet > [...] > THERE IS NO BET AND NEVER WAS! A bet needs a way to be resolved and this has none. Tomorrow nobody will be any wiser than they are today. You can't build a grand philosophical construction on a foundation of sand and this isn't even sand, at least the word "sand" means something. > > > The Washington John Clark will be right if the original bet "I will be in > Washington" > Only if "I" means a person who remembers making the "bet", and if it doesn't mean that then what the hell does that personal pronoun mean? If that is what it means then "I" will be a winner AND "I" will also be a loser. And so it's not a bet. > > > We can understand the question, specify what would constitute a right or > wrong answer, make economic decisions based on the answer > Explain what "bet" the personal pronoun "you" can make today that will economically benafit the person al pronoun "you" tomorrow. And just as important explain what sort of rational agent would cover that "bet". Who is on the other side of the "bet"? > > demonstrate that even rats have an instinctive understanding of the > question; > I went into that in some detail just a few days ago and you did not respond, I'm not going to do it again. 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.
