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WHERE is the meaning of a word? It's in the mind of the one who speaks. Remember, it is the speaker who decides what his words mean. So if your intention gets lost in transmission/communication and the listener hears a different intention; or no intention at all? Your words are meaningless? No. Tha...

Nicos - Himariotikos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPH-MyQG5N4

promethean75 wrote:"Unless these problems are solved, we’re all eternally damned" - Ecmandu

What's the progress?

No Reasons Given - Watching Me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDPNw3eoG7A

Words have consequences. Not meaning. Language is a tool for affecting and manipulating minds. Maybe future you. Maybe future me. Future somebody else. It means whatever it's evaluated and understood to mean by the future evaluator. Despite your intentions. Words have consequences but they also hav...

Skepdick wrote: A term doesn't mean what it's defined to mean - it means what it's interpreted to mean.

Nah.

Self-Reference in Language : In Constructivism, language and meaning are often viewed as circular. Words gain their meaning from other words, and this network of interrelated meanings is inherently self-referential. For example, when you ask for the meaning of a word, you may receive a definition t...

In any case, FDP did not qualify a context but merely state, 'circularity is bad' and judging from his previous posts, he is dogmatic and fanatical merely with classical logic. It's pretty clear that FDP was accusing the other side of circular reasoning. He wasn't talking about other kinds of circu...

Fair enough. You think there's a God. Hopefully, there is. I haven't seen much evidence of any such being. Apparently, some of us are more ignorant than others. I obviously fill the more ignorant requirement of that statement. So be it. It doesn't look like you carefully read what I wrote. I define...

If there's a god, the nature of rightness and wrongness would be determined by that god, and we don't have to worry about what anyone thinks. Spares us the trouble of having to debate about it. You have to worry about what God thinks. And the Bible is merely a book . . . not necessarily a reflectio...

That's why people who say that morality "comes from God" make more sense than those who say that it is "naturally evolved behavior". Why does it "make more sense" to believe that morality comes from God? What about reality better fits the picture of a God actually exis...

That behavior we call 'morality'. That's a purely descriptive title and I in no way use it prescriptively. Morality refers to what is right and what is wrong to do, it does NOT refer to what someone thinks is right and wrong. That's why people who say that morality "comes from God" make m...

All you did was give me a definition. That's what you asked for. Let me quote you: Then it's on you to define what you mean by "not true". Moving on. But you didn't tell me what makes your definition "not true". Nothing. It's a true definition. It's time you stop projecting your...

Start by defining "wrong". You don't understand what the word "truth" means. You don't understand how other people use it and you also do not understand how you're using it yourself. Then it's on you to define what you mean by "not true". I already did but you ignored ...

You have to learn what the word "truth" means. I know what it means. That's what you think, and unless you're interested to hear why other people think you're wrong, how are you going to correct it if it happens to be a mistake? You haven't shown an interest so far. When someone says &quo...