[ExI] Free will was: Everett worlds

[William Flynn Wallace]

So you, John, admit that you have no idea how to define abstractions.  Is
that right? You don't use a dictionary, you can't tell anyone what love is
because the physical examples I sent won't work, I suppose?   bill w

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 2:32 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 2:43 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> > I am not a linguist, but of course there is a problem defining
>> abstractions such as love.
>>
>
> Forget abstractions, without physical examples even something as concrete
> as well ..."concrete" would have no meaning. Without physical examples ET
> could not get any useful information out of the OED, It would just be one
> big exercise in useless circularity.
>
> John K Clark
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