Skepdick wrote: ↑Mon Mar 02, 2020 5:09 pm
Scott Mayers wrote: ↑Mon Mar 02, 2020 4:58 pm
READ and interpret the rest in context. You only save grace of it NOT being an insult if you mean that "YOU do not understand what he is saying."
I understand perfectly well what he is saying.
"I am not wrong"
"All the counter-evidence you are providing is not proving me wrong"
Scott Mayers wrote: ↑Mon Mar 02, 2020 4:58 pm
The term, "not smart"
may be appropriate. But then you still have the onus to prove WHY for ASSERTING such a conclusive belief unexpressed.
I have expressed it! Are you not paying attention?!?
Pete cannot prove himself wrong.
Pete is not stating his falsifiability criterion.
There is nothing that any of us can say that can convince Pete that he is wrong.
In my universe that is sufficient to dismiss him AND to call him dumb.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong
You are likely misintpreting him. He said,
I know that I know that I know that I am correct.
which is relatively ambiguous to be sure, but can mean that he is confident in something he knows only. But his fault is in assuming:
No one has been able to even begin to form any counter-example showing that I am not correct.
Everyone merely presumes that I am incorrect and then proceeds on that basis.
My correct refutation of the Halting Problem proofs will change all that.
...which means he presumes that he posited something understood and with clarity but that you or others are denying him his meaning of what he is positing for denying he is 'correct'. The error is that he hasn't been understood but thinks he has and so your contribution by asserting him dumb means that you DO understand him but think it is 'wrong', for which you require proving why.
I don't think you understood him yet and so cannot say that he is 'wrong' by your implicit insult. All you can say is that you do not follow.
But lets let him respond because my point if not shared by you will only fill HIS thread up with unnecessary junk. I think you need to be more accurate in expressing specifically what you think he is saying before you can be sure you disagree with him.