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I think I can answer this as well. You’re making it on the basis of whether the proposition relates properly to the state of affairs. That too is a ju...

I think I can answer this myself. The answer, as far as I’m concerned, is Person A. This is because the proposition “Person A is correct” matches the ...

I’m just going to reply to Mww here.

Perhaps you can answer this for me: State of affairs (objective fact): the cat is on the mat Proposition: “the cat is on the mat” Person A judges the ...

It’s not relevant, because it’s beside the point I was making. But regardless, I think these are pertinent examples, from Hitchens’ book: A school sho...

The thing is you can oppose tyranny and believe in objective truth, and you can be tyrant who believes there is no objective truth; so I don’t buy you...

His book is called More Guns, Less Crime. The quote in the OP is from it. I won’t, because it’s beside the point. If John Lott’s research shows what h...

It is beside the point and I think I made it clear why. Fair enough, it doesn’t say what I say it says, but it may actually say what John Lott says it...

A bizarre misunderstanding of what I said followed by more assertions. Like I said: Only once. If you don’t get it, you don’t get it.

I’m going to explain this once. If you don’t get (which I know you won’t), then you don’t get it. A lot of that statistic, according to what I’ve shar...

You say, ignoring what I’ve just posted. Assertions, nothing but.

Well alright. He’s an academic who works extensively with statistics then. Hitchens mentions the most-people-are-killed-by-people-they-know-claim:

By thinking about and examining the world. I think that “something exists” is an example of objective truth. What I was saying was you can’t live cons...

I don’t see why. I certainly feel very inclined to behave myself around people with guns. What I find dubious is your claim that you’d credibly be abl...

Cheers, it’s nice to be agreed with from time to time.

I don’t want the confusion to disappear. Knowing what’s true is important, and so is being unsure of things. It doesn’t seem coherent to say there is ...

It’s easy to think why one could, but that’s beside the point; the point being John Lott’s research shows allowing them to be legally owned and carrie...

No. That wasn’t my full explanation. You’re ignoring that. Thank you mate for caring about what I think, but I’d like to stop this now.

And don’t think I don’t notice when you ignore important points of mine as well.

You didn’t quote my explanation. You’re still ignoring that.

Yeah. I accuse you of ignoring my explanations and your response is to “paraphrase” my explanation in a way that ignores all of it.

I’ve given my explanation several times of how correspondence obtains. You ignore it and assert your own view. I’m sorry mate that I wan’t giving you ...

The above is what you said. I’ve just demonstrated I understand your argument. I’ve made objections to your argument and offered my own explanation on...

Correspondence obtains via a judgement made that a meaning matches a fact; judgements are mind-dependent, so therefore correspondence/truth is mind de...

You edited your post. I’m responding to that now.

Buddy, I don’t think you have any idea what I’ve been saying, or in fact what you’ve been saying. I’m happy to leave this alone now.

I’ve addressed that over and over again. I am understanding that, and have given explanations in answer to your requests. I have addressed it over and...

... ...Because its correspondence depends on something independent of the mind... ...

Another thought that seems to contradict the above: The cat is on the mat. You make that proposition and on seeing the cat judge that it corresponds w...

Nothing. That you’re asking that only shows you’re not understanding my point. A proposition/description is a thing within a person’s mind. However, i...

It describes it, and I’ve already given my explanation of what a description is. The cat is on the mat. That proposition describes/represents a partic...

You can only be sure of that if you ignore everything I’ve shared in this thread. Again, you have to flatly ignore the research of John Lott and all t...

No. Because the thing they’re matching is not in a person’s mind. I’ve been asking the whole time: What role does a person play in correspondence, bey...

This is where we got to last time. I gave an explanation and you went quiet. Descriptions obtain via a set of words with particular meanings represent...

You’ve said you believe in objective facts. If it’s an objective fact the cat is on the mat, then that proposition matches that fact. That would be th...

Then how can a proposition still be true even if I judge it to be false?

Did you ever explain what possible role judgement has in correspondence, beyond a person thinking up a proposition? The cat is on the mat. If that’s a...

If feminists are by definition incapable of posing false dichotomies, then fine, they’re not feminists.

What’s your distinction between interpreting and perceiving here?

The statement identifies gun control as a means of oppression, especially of women, and desires it be resisted.

Hitchens quotes their website at the time: Fair enough if they’re not principally a feminist group, but that sounds like an expression of feminism to ...

I know very little about Australia and its politics beyond those statistics, so can’t comment any more about that. The issue I’m concerned with here i...

I have a couple of problems with this explanation. Why would regular people unload their guns onto a market whose buyers are criminals, and so likely ...

Sure, though here’s something I quoted earlier:

I’ve had a quick look and there is indeed an ongoing debate. Gun ownership is tightly restricted in the UK. I don’t know what it’s like in Australia, ...

According to Hitchens, Lott found that “the largest drops in violent crime following the introduction of legal concealed handguns came in the most urb...

I see. I intuitively thought open carry would be more restricted that concealed carry, but there you go. I haven’t read Lott’s book, but according to ...

I fully agree that not everyone should be allowed a gun. And it seems prudent for those who do carry them to keep them concealed in public (I thought ...

Well whatever. That’s just you refusing to get the point. “Psychological need”. Glass houses mate.

There’s no empirically observable reason why the space I occupy should have anything to do with the space the floor beneath me occupies. It holds me u...