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"By your own admission": that part in particular, amongst the other problems with what you just said, stands out as either a lie or an error. And to s...

It makes sense to be specific when there's a need to be, and when there's a reasonable expectation for the specificity at the level you suggest. I dou...

I don't recall him saying anything about this hat which you mention. But I do recall him saying something about shooting armed criminals, which seems ...

Oh man, that's priceless. :lol:

You erroneously equate "a solution" with a complete solution in full detail, ready and waiting to be implemented. People here have outlined the soluti...

Internal consistency is vital, but also a piece of cake. You'd need to take it further to impress me.

You need to read more Wittgenstein. Your "translations" and similar assessments are ridiculously uncharitable. No one here should take them seriously.

Physicists know best about physical stuff as physical stuff, which is obviously what I meant. I wouldn't go to an archeologist to find out in detail a...

Yes, Mr. Fox. Whatever you say, Mr. Fox. Who wants sour grapes anyway? Right, Mr. Fox?

I don't remember hiring a translator, but in any case, you're fired.

I already know what your response is. I'm bored of it. I've been over it. You'd have to add something new for this to be interesting. You erroneously ...

Funny. Your question was put in terms of the physical. Who knows about that better than a physicist? That's why I specifically brought up a physicist....

Like knowledge, and like existence, time doesn't seem to require a definition for the purpose of this discussion, so long as you understand how I'm us...

No, no, no. Not in terms of the content of truth-claims, I meant the way in which you go about interpreting them as truth-claims, as in how you are as...

Yes, I reject all premises you erroneously believe to be reasonable, and go by my own premises, which actually are reasonable. Nice rationalisation. Y...

Then you worded it wrong before. So that was your fault, not mine. It would apply. You haven't provided a reasonable basis for a negation. The fallacy...

No, I'm not refraining from your weird question. I answered it in a way that might not be what you're looking for. Maybe it's wrong of you to be looki...

No, it's not just my personal opinion based on whim and fancy. It has a solid basis, and that's why it is shared by most other people. You're just try...

Weird question. People invented the language, made up the rules, agreed on them, started speaking it. "Let's use the symbol 'dog' to mean those furry ...

No, that's a mental association. You need that for understanding. I'm talking about what the word "boat" means. You confuse the two. What the word mea...

The key phrase I used was, "on the face of it". And that matters because it has to do with intuitiveness, common sense, our common language, what make...

All this means is that you choose to interpret truth-claims in a manner incongruent with how the opening post is supposed to be interpreted. And there...

Why do you assume that it would have to be made at the time, after we're all dead, when there obviously wouldn't be anyone alive to make statements? W...

If you let go off your needlessly strict criteria for justification, or your needlessly incongruous way of interpreting things like this, then yes! Dr...

Terrapin has trouble with that one. He tends to see the one as the other. I had that problem with him earlier, and I had to give him an explanation of...

Correction: there would be a rock. Like me, he goes by logic, as opposed to your irrational empiricism. Unlike you, he doesn't assume your unwarranted...

Okay, I will bring you a glass of that gin you like. And I won't throw it in your face. Promise. :halo:

Incorrect. It ended with me informing you that I was going to ignore you, because we reached a dead end whereby you kept asking me to do something whi...

Yes! That's the right kind of thinking! (At least, I think so). It's different priorities, it seems. What's more of a priority? The question of whethe...

Ironically, this was your type of error from earlier on, when I was stating the meaning of "boat", and in response, you were talking about a definitio...

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It seems to me that there might be a problem with his method. It's like he starts from, "It must be subjective!", and then tries to come up with an ar...

I think we all know your argument by now. What's the point of repeating it? That reply of yours doesn't progress the debate or engage productively. It...

Bring in tougher gun laws which can be enforced, and enforce them.

No, you just don't like it when I correctly identify an error in one of your replies, although I was basically beaten to the punch by andrewk when he ...

I included his quote above yours. I addressed it to both of you, since he said it and you humoured him without addressing the elephant in the room.

I doubt whether your first sentence is sincere. You have no idea? Despite what I already said? You have no idea what it means to say that gibberish do...

Depends what you mean. Not in my sense, no. I know what I mean, and I can guess what you'll mean because you're predictable. You'll probably set aside...

That's a false accusation of a false accusation of a false analogy.

:rofl: Are we in a Monty Python sketch? That makes sense per the rules of the language. In English, "The don't why up on the change please you can", d...

That's a false analogy. Moral objectivists and I absolutely agree that there's a right and a wrong. That's an appropriate analogy here. You're like a ...

Then how did you receive my meaning loud and clear, as evidenced by your reply? :lol: You understood the meaning that I expressed to you. You can't te...

You're making the mistake of overthinking what's simple and evidently true: that I'm expressing meaning to you through language.

That's funny, because I just did express meaning to you. I'm doing it now. That's how we're communicating successfully enough. That's what it means. Y...

Predictable. Yes, it's the definition. That's how I express the meaning to you. How else could I possibly do that? No, the meaning is what I just expr...

No, that's just the related mental activities. They are what they are, and meaning they are not. The meaning is what it means. The meaning of "boat" i...

There's a third thing you're missing out, which is the whole point I'm making here in the discussion related to Part 2. There's the set of ink marks o...

So we're playing the game where we pretend like I haven't told you how you're misunderstanding, are we? I don't like that game. I gave you the short v...

Okay, so in my language, it's a rule, and in your language it's just the result of an analysis, even though we're talking about the same thing. The tw...

But a strength of my argument is that I'm not saying anything controversial on the face of it. If the idealist can't even handle a hypothetical scenar...