@jeeprs,
jeeprs;162842 wrote:True, but it started out whether 'intention' was mental or physical. It's the same thing, you say. I say not. Intention has in internal or subjective meaning in the same way that pain does.
I did not say they are identical. I said we should consider it as a possibility, and not dismiss it out of hand, or as we say in the jargon,
A priori. You appear to be arguing that is it is impossible that an intention (which is mental) should also be physical. I am just saying that it is not impossible, and if so, it might even be true. Of course, whether or not it is true is a different issue from whether it is possible. And, again, the fact that something means one thing to me, and a different thing to you, does not mean it cannot be one and the same thing. The term "socialism" no doubt vibrates differently for each of us. But we are still talking about the same political theory. Otherwise, any dispute would be merely a verbal dispute.