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To: Robin Plunder who wrote (97971)1/17/2013 10:25:17 PM
From: Joseph Silent  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 218637
 
Well then, let's take an example to make my point. What is the meaning of "God"? And what is the meaning
of "I" ? What does it mean to say that "God is all powerful" ?



To: Robin Plunder who wrote (97971)1/17/2013 10:29:37 PM
From: Joseph Silent  Respond to of 218637
 
"if they have no meaning, then your comments have no meaning."

You have already started playing the kinds of word games I try to avoid.

Can you point me to a place where I have said that "they have no meaning" ?

Why would you bring in such propositions?

I said that we would have to establish meaning. This is not the same as "they have no meaning".

Do you now see why this kind of discussion is quite pointless?



To: Robin Plunder who wrote (97971)1/17/2013 10:40:18 PM
From: Joseph Silent  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 218637
 
Let me give you one more to work out, since you like to establish "foundations" and get to

the meaning of things. What does it mean to say that a Cauchy random variable has no average? I don't want the definition (since I know it) but it would be nice to have the meaning, and the implication for related random variables. And from there, we can address things like the meaning of randomness.