Language and Logic (General)

by dhw, Sunday, April 06, 2014, 15:47 (3882 days ago) @ romansh

Dhw: I share Tony's frustration, because your use of ambiguity has led to a discussion of your own motives instead of our focusing on the real issues. But if you really cannot see the ambiguities, then let's move on. The subject of what constitutes the self, consciousness and free will deserves a higher level of thought than this.
-ROMANSH: Just to be clear ... it is not me that is discussing my motives. It is you Tony and Dave. 
Is my position clear to you now dhw?
-You have made your position clear: you do not know whether we have free will or even whether we are conscious, but you are sceptical on both counts. What is not clear is why you should ask Tony and me whether we deny that the sun is the cause of strange weather in answer to the assertion that, for instance, Hitler deliberately chose to have millions of Jews slaughtered. But I suspect our own position on that subject is clear to you now, Romansh!-I propose that we end this thread, and tackle the more interesting subject of the self, concerning which I am opening a new thread.