I don’t think that’s the kind of linguistic trickery it is. It’s more like:
The dead person’s body exists, but the dead person’s mind/consciousness no longer does. If you equivocate by calling both of those things “the person”, then they seem to simultaneously be dead and not dead. If you stop equivocating, the problem goes away.
I don’t think that’s the kind of linguistic trickery it is. It’s more like:
The dead person’s body exists, but the dead person’s mind/consciousness no longer does. If you equivocate by calling both of those things “the person”, then they seem to simultaneously be dead and not dead. If you stop equivocating, the problem goes away.