Yeah, the questions and answers can be arbitrary, doesn’t have to be X and ¬X.
I’m not completely sure whether Scott’s method would work given how we’re defining the meaning of questions, especially in the middle of the debate. The idea is to define the question by how a snapshot of the questioner taken when they wrote the question would answer questions about what they meant. So in this case, if you asked the questioner ‘is your question equivalent to ‘should I eat potatoes tonight?″, they wouldn’t know. On the other hand, you could ask them ’ if I think you should eat potatoes tonight, is your question equivalent to ’should I eat potatoes tonight?″. This would work as long as you were referring only to what one debater believed you should eat tonight, I think.
I feel fairly ok about this as a way to define the meaning of questions written by debaters within the debate. I’m less sure about how to define the top-level question. It seems like there’s only really one question, which is ‘what should I do?’, and it’s going to have to be defined by how the human asker clarifies their meaning. I’m not sure whether the meaning of the question should be allowed to include things the questioner doesn’t know at the time of asking.
That’s correct about simultaneity.
Yeah, the questions and answers can be arbitrary, doesn’t have to be X and ¬X.
I’m not completely sure whether Scott’s method would work given how we’re defining the meaning of questions, especially in the middle of the debate. The idea is to define the question by how a snapshot of the questioner taken when they wrote the question would answer questions about what they meant. So in this case, if you asked the questioner ‘is your question equivalent to ‘should I eat potatoes tonight?″, they wouldn’t know. On the other hand, you could ask them ’ if I think you should eat potatoes tonight, is your question equivalent to ’should I eat potatoes tonight?″. This would work as long as you were referring only to what one debater believed you should eat tonight, I think.
I feel fairly ok about this as a way to define the meaning of questions written by debaters within the debate. I’m less sure about how to define the top-level question. It seems like there’s only really one question, which is ‘what should I do?’, and it’s going to have to be defined by how the human asker clarifies their meaning. I’m not sure whether the meaning of the question should be allowed to include things the questioner doesn’t know at the time of asking.