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Here's the simplest way to put it: "What's a chair? Is it that thing you sit on?" "That's correct". End of discussion. Simplification is good. :up:

My head hurts, even from your watered down attempt at translating what I said. I can't say whether you're right or wrong in your translation, because ...

I don't know. Why don't we try this? On the idea of the concept of the idea of the correctness of concepts, not as concepts, but as the object of perc...

I think that that's just saying something else based loosely on the gobbledygook that he produced, but it's good that you're able to make sense from n...

Alright, then rephrase it in plain English.

What nonsense. Tell me, how can I mention details of which I do not know? If you think that that's suppression, then you must not know what the word "...

Then why haven't you learnt that no one cares about your stupid religious cult nonsense?

Being an effective rhetorician does. Late night hosts wouldn't be late night hosts, or wouldn't keep their job for long, if they weren't effective rhe...

He inherited his wealth from Daddy Trump, managed to somehow bankrupt a casino, and would be richer if he had just invested in index funds. The guy is...

Of course I am. Hundreds of people are, all over the world. They are famous (or infamous in the case of Hitler) rhetoricians. Don't be absurd. To be c...

Okay, I'll elaborate. It comes across more as philosophy-sounding artistic literature, than an attempt to state the truth in a clear manner with accom...

He also said outlandish things like this, and still hasn't conceded, to my knowledge. If you said it out loud, people would laugh. There is a correct ...

Hitler? Martin Luther King Jr.? :brow: There isn't much to be suppressed though, is there?

Well, it started with claims like this, where he makes a trivial point where he doesn't seem to consider the importance of context, which changes ever...

I don't agree with a single word you just said.

Haha! Illiterate? Ironically, it's a statement phrased in the style you'd expect to find in early learning literature. A is for apple as B is for...?

No, it doesn't matter what you call it, the problem remains, and you ought to take responsibility for your part in the breakdown of the conversation w...

I can see through what you're doing, you know. You're suggesting a bad motive on my part. It's not a competition, but there's more to this than simply...

Why on earth would it not be a situation where red herrings can be introduced? It's exactly that kind of situation. I've lost hope that I'll get any r...

You often try to turn it back on me, as though I'm the one in the wrong. Try to think about why I did that. You backed me into a corner. You gave me n...

Gnostic is to agnostic as theism is to atheism. :brow:

That's interesting, given that one of your biggest problems is that you get too controlling. You simply must be in control of the direction which the ...

Those claims can be categorised along with many religious, supernatural, and conspiracy theory claims. They can be filed away in the "special cabinet"...

A discussion between two people should be quid pro quo. What I've learnt from engaging you in discussion is that you don't care about that, even when ...

This is a clearcut example of a red herring. Instead of answering my question, he replies with a question of his own, and makes an irrelevant secondar...

It's ridiculous that Terrapin is telling me, of all people, to keep my posts short.

I'm tired of your excuses. Take responsibility for once.

You mean you want to ignore the main thrust of the lengthy debate we were having in order to pursue your red herring. You do this all the time. Just a...

It's not funny, it's a stain on your reputation, and ignominious way of ending a debate.

Right, it's reached that point again where you are effectively conceding the debate due to deliberate trouble making, in this case, not putting any ef...

It's both. The digression can be traced back to this exchange between us. I clarified my position to you, and did not get a proper reply from you. I a...

You began a digression before answering the most important point of disagreement between us. I want you to give a clear and direct answer to that key ...

Just answer the key question in bold. What's the problem? Stop evading.

I'm not even going to read your reply, because it is apparently a response to your own digression, which you seem to want to continue. Enough with the...

What do you mean by that? Why wouldn't it? And besides, please don't create diversions. It feels as though we are on the verge of finally getting some...

Yes, but so what? I never at any point said that conventional usage is the only possible standard of correctness. I very clearly said that it is the d...

It certainly feels like that with Terrapin Station at times like this! :lol:

Of course I'm not just saying that. Haven't you been listening? I'm saying that when that's what's meant, and when you interpret that meaning accordin...

In a sense, yes. Like Baden said, we're not dealing in absolutes. So, under the working assumption that willingness in this context indicates correctn...

Are you insane? I'm not failing to understand your irrelevant points. It is correct per my usage, and per common usage, and per a matching interpretat...

That's all it is, I'm sure.

The first dictionary definition I found fits the situation I described just fine: correct "1. free from error; in accordance with fact or truth". If y...

I find it really silly that you don't want to use the word "correct" like the rest of us, even though it makes no practical difference. When you inter...

Then you must use some other word than "correct" which has no practical difference in meaning.

Did you watch the Tory leadership debates? Some of the candidates, Jeremy Hunt in particular, seem to think that he's the literal incarnation of Lenin...

Annoying, isn't it?

Well, it's not "just" that, but let's not kid ourselves that that doesn't sum up a large part of it. Love the comic strip at the bottom of your openin...

It doesn't have little to no effect, except perhaps on that basket of deplorables, and it's definitely mostly rhetoric coming from Trump. What else wo...

Stop lying. It's getting on my nerves. It still has that meaning, with a derogatory use, as can be verified by online dictionaries. From my own experi...

The case has been around for some time, it just isn't convincing enough. They definitely have a truth-value, whatever that may be. Anyone who thinks o...