Rapparee, with his Francaise execrable has demonstrated the vaporous map to perfection. When you say it is all semantics, you are ducking the substance of the subject behind the misty screen of language. But the agreements which solidify the apparency of the dinglicheit are much deeper seated than the agreements that form the misty screen of semantic foggery. The subtlety in this particular discussion lies int he fact that the substance under discussion is mind itself; your assertion that it is all semantics merely obscures the question of the substance behind the labels. In the case of Shane this substance may, marginally, be said to exist; but it is a sorry sort of corroded, misbegotten existence indeed, an apology for mind.

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