Have I said that 'a rule' is or asserts 'a fact'?Peter Holmes wrote: ↑Fri Nov 18, 2022 12:22 pm It can be a fact - a feature of reality - that a rule has a causal effect. And that a rule exists and people obey it can be a fact. And objectivity is about facts.
But to say a rule - a command - is or asserts a fact is a category error.
If yes, then WHERE?
But if no, then this has absolutely NOTHING AT ALL to do with what I SAID and SHOWED.
LOL Talk about providing a great example of one expressing what they BELIEVE to be true as though it is a fact.Peter Holmes wrote: ↑Fri Nov 18, 2022 12:22 pm It's like saying that, because people believe something, what they believe is a fact. For example: it's a fact that many benighted people believe there are gods; therefore, there are gods. (This is absurd.)
But, just because you believe some thing "peter holmes" this does NOT make it a fact.
You seem to be MISSING the whole point here.Peter Holmes wrote: ↑Fri Nov 18, 2022 12:22 pm An imperative has no truth-value. The command 'go away' is neither true nor false.
And the way you respond now, or do not respond, will SHOW just how OPEN and READY you are to LEARNING MORE, or NOT.
It does NOT 'need' explaining.Peter Holmes wrote: ↑Fri Nov 18, 2022 12:22 pm And obedience to it doesn't make it true, just as disobedience doesn't make it false. The prediction that people will go away can turn out to be true or false, but that doesn't make the command true or false. (I wonder why this needs explaining.)
And, the fact that what you think you are explaining here has absolutely ANY thing to do with what I was POINTING OUT and SHOWING, REVEALS just how OUT OF TUNE you REALLY ARE here.