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>From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy,sci.philosophy.tech
Subject: Re: Causes and Reasons
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Date: 7 Jan 92 20:09:58 GMT
References: <1991Dec17.154142.21021@psych.toronto.edu> <16089@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1991Dec18.151208.6749@husc3.harvard.edu> <16114@castle.ed.ac.uk>
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In article <16114@castle.ed.ac.uk> cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes:
>In article <1991Dec18.151208.6749@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@brauer.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
>>In article <16089@castle.ed.ac.uk> 
>>cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes:
>
>>>In article <1991Dec17.154142.21021@psych.toronto.edu> 
>>>michael@psych.toronto.edu (Michael Gemar) writes:
>
>MG:
>>>>*I* uniquely determine what *I* am thinking about.  I am the sole arbiter
>>>>of the content of my conscious thoughts.  How could it possibly be otherwise?
>
>CM:
>>>Simple. You could be wrong. People often are.
>
>>He could be wrong, but not in a way that could be legitimately 
>>corrected by you.

Or by anyone else, since *he* is the *sole arbiter*.

>What on earth is the point of this silly and irrelevant ad hominem
>attack?

What?


