Re: failure of debate

From: Dan Fabulich (daniel.fabulich@yale.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 22 2000 - 14:43:44 MST


The very fact that you got your answer that way should, of course, suggest
to you that your definition may be rigged.

Here's another definition, which might rig the answers in my favor:

Something exists if it can have causal effects on something else which
exists. This definition would be incomplete without a few starting
points, so I'll give a couple: I exist. You exist.

Anyway, the stronger point is that we can keep on cooking up definitions,
each of which will yield some conclusion on the qualia question, but we
have no way of determining which of these definitions we ought to use.

-Dan

      -unless you love someone-
    -nothing else makes any sense-
           e.e. cummings



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