On 4/30/2018 9:09 AM, John Clark wrote:
You say the diary solves the referent issue because its clear the man in Helsinki wrote it and he wrote it yesterday, but in one variation of the thought experiment there is nobody in Helsinki today, there are people in Moscow and Washington who vividly remember writing that diary but what one and only one really did? What did the correct answer to the question turn out to be? Who wrote the diary? Is the one and only one referent to the personal pronoun “I” in the question the Moscow man or the Washington man? It can’t be the Helsinki man because today there is no Helsinki man.
That's like saying that a man who took a plane from Helsinki to Moscow who has a diary can't have been written by "the Helsinki man" because he's no longer in Helsinki.
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