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You would say that, though. It's clear that you're a big fan of obscurantism from your posting history.

I really do hope that this is a deliberate parody from you. What's a photocopier? Also, what's a beard? What's a heap of sand?

Who said anything about regurgitating what has been said before? Ordinary language philosophy is a modern thing, and it might just be one of the bigge...

No, I am content to talk about things in the mode of science, and I am content to talk about things in the mode of philosophy, so long as it ends up m...

In a sense... And what about the ordinary sense of how we talk? Does it make sense to say that I've eaten an appearance? What makes more sense to say:...

I'm all of them and more. In short, I am God. In fact, God pales in comparison to me. I'm like God, but much better. Perfect in fact. No, wait, I'm be...

:100: The mashed is the potato! @"Mww" :clap: :clap: :clap:

You want to be a special philosophy-type with a special insight? And Kant's philosophy is useful for that? Even though it fails outside of that little...

I got forcibly removed from the role of moderator by the owner of this forum because he judged that I was being too honest, and I didn't change my beh...

What's the case are facts. The two are no different. It's the case that today is Sunday. It's a fact that I'm at home. I just reject your, "It must be...

No, they came from me. I am not nothing. And I couldn't exist if I didn't exist in the world. My dreams resemble my experiences, and my experiences ar...

:rofl: Yeah, that's a real good argument. I actually have taken LSD, on multiple occasions, yet I see that you've got it wrong, not right.

No, reality is the ultimate ground of everything, including you and your perceptions. You can be a sceptic about what exactly there is beyond your per...

It's nonsensical. Literally.

It's the orange which appears to you a certain way. The orange is not an intuition full stop. I don't eat intuitions. It's a particular object. An ora...

Here's the problem: you were making sense right up until you denied the objectivity necessarily implied in what you said before your denial. If you re...

It doesn't even make sense to say that reality is appearance if you can't say what reality is an appearance of. Appearances must be appearances of som...

Yes, no technique is guaranteed to be successful. Any given technique will inevitably only work in some cases, not all. The question and answers given...

This is kind of funny, because I already said that it's not the end of the world, in those exact words. And I know how it works here from a staff pers...

Who wants a round of "good ones, bad ones, meh"? The good ones: Diogenes, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, G. E. Moore, Russell, Wittgenstein. The bad ones: Soc...

Yes. And no one has provided any substantial basis for rejecting my position on that. We've just had illogic and trivial semantics. We've also had ina...

I didn't think that his question was relevant because it was asking a question about a different issue. It was asking whether or not we can know, in p...

I still don't accept that for there to be linguistic meaning at the time, there would need to be an intentional act of associating one thing, like bel...

How on earth do you get from that to, "For meaning to occur at a given time, people must exist at that time"?

What the...? To get the work done? What does that mean? All you seem to be doing with your example is showing that there's some kind of logical relati...

It's really unclear what you're talking about here though, and unfortunately not for the first time. It's not so much what you're saying that is uncle...

No, I suspect that it's an example of you failing to realise that you're talking about a difference sense of existential dependence which completely m...

When you learn proper grammar, and when you're capable of logic on my level, get back to me, and we can sensibly continue this.

No, you're just bad at logic beyond a more basic level. You can't just assume what the debate is over as part of your argument. Jesus H. Christ. No. I...

I knew this would lead to disappointment. That is precisely what the debate hinges on. Assuming what you're supposed to be concluding is a logical fal...

I don't care what you think about that, because I've confined the discussion to linguistic meaning only, so whether that's true or false is irrelevant...

I don't care what you think about that, because I've confined the discussion to linguistic meaning only, so whether that's true or false is irrelevant...

It seems a little unclear. I would change it to: all linguistic meaning consists of correlations that have been drawn between different things. That w...

That's far too many assertions there that you're bombarding me with all at once. You're getting ahead of yourself now. Each one would require careful ...

I lost patience after your problematic first reply, which I did briefly address. You were just getting the wrong end of the stick, and it would sap my...

Step 1 is to quote something I said. The quote function is your friend.

Look, I'm not saying that you had bad intent, but I really think that you have a tendency to go about involving yourself in a discussion in the wrong ...

It's a scenario which you yourself thought up, and it asks a different question which I'm not concerned with. You should be putting a conscious effort...

Why don't you create a discussion of your own and ask that question? Can you please stop trying to be the chairperson in other people's discussions al...

Okay, I will bury the hatchet. Bury it deep in his skull. And then we can move on. :smile: :up:

Huh? Answer what?

Blasphemer.

No thanks. Here will do.

If he's cool, which he definitely isn't, it's only because he has a sharp tongue like me.

My original answer was good enough. That would be a conclusion, not an argument. You didn't do as I asked, which was to give a proper answer, where th...

Let me get this straight. You don't even understand that I was saying that you don't understand?

Bronze. That way it'll do more damage when I bash you over the head with it.

You say that I am not smart enough, but what would a chimpanzee know of the works of Shakespeare? It would be wasted on you.

Your analysis is flawed. I've told you before that I consider definitions to be expressions of meaning in language. Expressions of meaning in language...