Yeah theorists have been doing this since Plato. They can't understand the question they've asked so they try to re-parse it into one that they can. I'm not s

Yeah theorists have been doing this since Plato. They can't understand the question they've asked so they try to re-parse it into one that they can. I'm not sure why - but it rarely occurs to them to just stop asking the first question, and stop asking whether the second actually has the same semantic content as the first. When I point this out to them they retort that I have no rational argument that could reasonably compel them to accept that these questions can't be answered. I accept the truth of this retort. However, I offer them the prediction that animals that tend toward behaviours such as theirs will get selected out of existence a whole lot sooner than those that don't. It's a purely empirical hypothesis so there is nothing more that can be said on the matter - and so it mercifully ends the conversation.