With regard to your clone example, you say:
--After waking up I argue the question of "The probability of me being the clone/original" is invalid.
Perhaps the question is invalid, but only because you specified the question poorly to begin with. You say there are two individuals, but don't specify who is asking the questions. Who is it who is "waking up", and who asks the question "The probability of me being the clone/original?" Are both clones waking up and asking the same question? If your question applies to both clo...
Dadadarren, I appreciate the reply. I happen to be a double halfer (triple halfer!) myself. I do not support the thirder arguments, but I am trying to extract the insights you bring to the debate. You seem to agree that 'ambiguous' or 'unspecified' reference has something to do with the problems in these questions. But is this problem distinct from your claim that 'First and Third Person Perspectives' get mixed up/conflated, or is it the same problem?
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