[ExI] Free will was: Everett worlds

[Darin Sunley]

It is trivial to show that since a word in isolation is completely
meaningless, and adding another meaningless word won't help, we can show by
induction over the dictionary that language acquisition is impossible, and
that therefore this email is completely absurd.

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 1:40 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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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