On 18 Aug 2017, at 17:29, John Clark wrote:
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.
Of course there is, and many people has given it to you, but this
needs to take seriously the "peepee and baby talk" (to use your
vocabulary)..
Bruno
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 personal 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
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