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Immanuel Can
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Skepdick wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 6:42 pm Categorical claims...
I'm not interested in you anymore, Skep. You've gone too many messages without being interesting. Sophistry is boring.
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Immanuel Can wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 6:36 pm
Lacewing wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 6:23 pm So you're still unable to demonstrate anything about what you claim.
It's you who has the issue, not me.
There's no issue. You're simply unable to demonstrate anything you claim.
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Immanuel Can wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 6:54 pm I'm not interested in you anymore, Skep. You've gone too many messages without being interesting. Sophistry is boring.
So why isn't it boring when you are doing it?
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Lacewing wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 7:12 pm There's no issue. You're simply unable to demonstrate anything you claim.
It's your claim. You claim there is no objective truth.

That claim cannot, therefore, be true.
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Immanuel Can wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 7:29 pm It's your claim. You claim there is no objective truth.

That claim cannot, therefore, be true.
It can't be false either.

So what do you make of that claim; or Philosophy in general when "truth" and "falsity" are made up?
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Skepdick wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 7:33 pm
Immanuel Can wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 7:29 pm It's your claim. You claim there is no objective truth.

That claim cannot, therefore, be true.
It can't be false either.
Yeah, actually, it can: it can be nonsensical. And nonsensical things are not merely false...they're factually false, but also absurd, as well.

That's what self-contradiction gets one.
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Immanuel Can wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 7:43 pm Yeah, actually, it can: it can be nonsensical. And nonsensical things are not merely false...they're factually false, but also absurd, as well.

That's what self-contradiction gets one.
You seem to be confusing truth and meaning.

But it'd be difficult to explain the difference to a sophist.

Start with the question: "What does it mean for a sentence to be true?"
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Skepdick wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 7:46 pm You seem to be confusing truth and meaning.
Go ahead. Explain what you think the difference is. Then I'll tell you whether you're right or not.

No use arguing about a mere "seeming."
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Immanuel Can wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 6:34 pm
DPMartin wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 6:14 pm the question was rhetorical,
Well, rhetorical questions are difficult to mark in this format.
no argument there
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Immanuel Can wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 8:12 pm
Skepdick wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 7:46 pm You seem to be confusing truth and meaning.
Go ahead. Explain what you think the difference is. Then I'll tell you whether you're right or not.

No use arguing about a mere "seeming."
Seeming as you think you are in a position to tell whether I am "right" or "wrong" then you already believe you know what the difference is.

So why are you trying to waste my time?
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Skepdick wrote: Thu May 13, 2021 2:49 pm
Immanuel Can wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 8:12 pm
Skepdick wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 7:46 pm You seem to be confusing truth and meaning.
Go ahead. Explain what you think the difference is. Then I'll tell you whether you're right or not.

No use arguing about a mere "seeming."
Seeming as you think you are in a position to tell whether I am "right" or "wrong" then you already believe you know what the difference is.
Nope. I have no window into your mind. What you think you are pointing out, only you can say. Go ahead.
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Immanuel Can wrote: Thu May 13, 2021 3:01 pm
Skepdick wrote: Thu May 13, 2021 2:49 pm
Immanuel Can wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 8:12 pm
Go ahead. Explain what you think the difference is. Then I'll tell you whether you're right or not.

No use arguing about a mere "seeming."
Seeming as you think you are in a position to tell whether I am "right" or "wrong" then you already believe you know what the difference is.
Nope. I have no window into your mind. What you think you are pointing out, only you can say. Go ahead.
It seems to me that there can be no single truth in metaphysical matters. Here everyone has their own truth, based on personal experience and outlook on life.
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Immanuel Can wrote: Thu May 13, 2021 3:01 pm Nope. I have no window into your mind. What you think you are pointing out, only you can say. Go ahead.
The standard of "right" and "wrong" by which you intend to judge my words is in your mind, not mine.

Go ahead and furnish it.
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Skepdick wrote: Thu May 13, 2021 3:20 pm
Immanuel Can wrote: Thu May 13, 2021 3:01 pm Nope. I have no window into your mind. What you think you are pointing out, only you can say. Go ahead.
The standard of "right" and "wrong" by which you intend...
You have no window into my mind either. You don't know what I "intend."

So I guess you can ante up or fold. Your call.
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Immanuel Can wrote: Thu May 13, 2021 5:27 pm You have no window into my mind either. You don't know what I "intend."
I don't need a window into your mind. You told me what you intend.
Immanuel Can wrote: Tue May 11, 2021 8:12 pm Then I'll tell you whether you're right or not.
Immanuel Can wrote: Thu May 13, 2021 5:27 pm So I guess you can ante up or fold. Your call.
I am all in...

How do you intend to tell whether I am right or not if you don't know the difference between truth and meaning?
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