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It's funny that he's ignoring me, even though his opening post was blatantly originally intended to be used as the opening in a formal debate against ...

Well, you had better reconsider. Or else... I'll... write a formal letter of complaint!

And what do you intend to do to go about redressing this? Thanks. Thanks for dragging me into it in such an infuriating manner. :lol:

That's great on a practical level, in a sense of what we mean by this or that. But it doesn't help resolve the problem that I was getting at in my dis...

And it doesn't show that, because I came back with a challenge which you've decided to ignore. It only shows that you're not really bothered.

But how would you demonstrate that it is in a nontrivial way? A trivial way would, for example, be to just assert that meaning is use, and then interp...

Then don't bring it up here, genius. Is this not a topic for discussing the text of the PI? One obvious way of doing that is by contrasting it with th...

Thanks for that. It was interesting. Of course, the philosophers after all of that, around the time of the linguistic turn, also had relevant points t...

So all we've got to "grasp" is a demonstrable falsehood. Got it. This is a very old and very deceptive argument which has long since been refuted. I t...

:roll: See my discussion about people talking past each other. He even made it easy for you by using scare quotes. You know, like those "horses" that ...

And that would be deceptive. So, you can talk normally, so long as you're deceptive and don't really mean what you say. And this isn't a problem for i...

I mentioned it, and I mentioned it because of the expressed views of @"Terrapin Station", and because it seemed relevant to the problem that @"jamalro...

I love a good ol' game of whack-a-mole.

Damn. Bitter Crank is on form. :clap: :lol:

Well, to give another example which has happened to me here recently: if I've identified where the problem seems to be stemming from, like a controver...

Well merely saying that it's wrong isn't interesting at all. You've linked me in on a post which doesn't contain any support of your assertions. Clear...

I love cats. Black Beauty is one of my favourite films.

If it's talking past each other, then it's a misunderstanding, namely that they're talking about the same thing. What you gave as an example could be ...

Reasonable people.

Either try to reasonably support the controversial assertion or be explicit about what it is and what you're doing.

It's fine to try correct what one believes to be an error; again, so long as one goes about it in the right way. The problem has been an apparent obli...

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Oh, that. You noticed? I thought that you might have been too busy gallantly riding in on your high horse to save the day, with your noble armour of p...

Oh my goodness. I'm not suggesting that people aren't going to disagree, or that they shouldn't do so. I'm suggesting that they should do so in the ri...

I dunno... sounds kinda white knight-ey to me.

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So, despite all of that text in the opening post, it all boils down to that one assertion which I've bolded above. You may as well cross out or delete...

I'll be honest and admit that I haven't read the opening post, at least yet. But if that's what he's doing, then I made the point multiple times that ...

Agreed. This became a problem in my discussions. I think that some people either missed or (for some reason unclear to me) rejected my point that the ...

What's funny is that you think that I'm doing this, and you're coming up with an elaborate explanation, overthinking it as philosophy-types are wont t...

No, no, no. I shouldn't really have to provide a definition for the word "horse". Assume that words are being used in the ordinary way, or examine and...

But it can be way more subtle than the example I gave in my opening post. It can, in some cases, look a lot like an intelligent and meaningful philoso...

The only part I disagree with is where you say that this is a property of the hammer. That seems to take our way of talking about the hammer far too l...

This is very, very peculiar. The fact is a property of the air between the hammer and the nails, amongst other things? No. Properties of the air betwe...

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I see. The orange is part of the experience. So when I eat the orange, I'm eating a part of the experience. Now it all makes perfect sense. I think yo...

:100: (Alright, alright! Maybe I'll take another look and start over. Just hold your horses! But I do think that you're giving yourself a bit too much...

Sure... if you say so...

Thank you.

It's quality, not quantity. You could have a hundred, but you'll never be as smart as me.

Ergh! How revolting. Kill it with fire. Come now, we all know you don't have a brain. That's more like it. You had me worried for a second there.

Sometimes? :brow:

Sweet! Alrighty then, let's continue. :party: Now, where were we...? I think when we left off, @"Noah Te Stroete" was wiping the tears from his vagina...

Or one rotten killjoy ruins the fun. Yep, certainly wouldn't want that to spread. Ladies and gentleman, I believe we have ourselves a white knight.

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Not you though. Admit it, you love rolling around in the muck with the bad kids, so long as you can maintain some semblance of being above the fray. :...

You don't think that if we all use the same terms but mean different things, that'll increase the risk getting our wires crossed? Empty words. I haven...

Right. Sometimes they're cats.

It's partly about something historical, and that part is important. If it weren't for that, then it wouldn't have meaning. The big difference between ...

Indeed!