Empty

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Strike one

:confused:

Would you rather have people saying things they don’t agree with?

This was a duplicate of my other thread. I could not delete the thread, so I left it empty.

Guys, you really don’t have to participate in empty threads, they were not intentional.

You had three of them, for me the way they were sequenced was irrisistable to my humor :laughing:

This was unintentional, we used to be able to delete double postings

empty vee leads to empty heads…

-Imp

Talking Heads need the empty vee

same as it ever was

-Imp

Are you sure about that? :-s

It was intentional intent to not intend

Can it be rational to form an intention which you have no intention of fulfilling?

while abstracting abstractions the illusionist said abracadabra and the sesame seed bun was unable to open the door…

-Imp

Poets have left the building.

Alright.

  1. If one has a split/double personality, it might be possible.
  2. When one is daydreaming.

Yes, my intention was to post only one (not multiples).

Do you:
a. Doubt my judgment?
b. Doubt my sincerity?
c. Just want to quibble with me?

Yes… :smiley:

What about in matters of deterrence?

If we say rationality is that which either increases utility, or at least prevents the minimum from being lowered, then we may say that we intend to respond to nuclear attacks with more nuclear attacks.

If the one that hits us is devastating, then we look at the rest of the world and decide to devastate them back, then we would be decreasing utility and thus being irrational.

But to form the intention might be rational because until we’ve been struck with a nuclear bomb, utility is relativley high and making such a threat may be the best way to keep it from dropping.

The threat would have to be real for it to work.

So I think that you can rationally form an intention which couldn’t be rationally fulfilled.

Sure can.

Yep.