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You want us to list the things that all truths have in common? Think on that.

You lucky thing.

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or https://i.pinimg.com/originals/02/c7/7a/02c77a0c735f4fc40b226dc12d5bb266.jpg ?

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Or more likely, Anatoly Vasiliev has moved on to the next forum.

Somewhere a poor, lonely Romanian girl is thinking "Why do they always ban me? What do I do wrong? All I want is to be loved..."

Damn. You're not special like me, Tiff.

A worthy distinction.

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A post in "The Power of Truth" Drawing attention again to the conundrum of personal choice as against social requirement.

It was one way my ancestors used to party. Yep.

You seem to like keeping things half-said. What's the contradiction? That some folk think you should steal cedar trees, while other folk don't? How's ...

We are the source of morality. That much is I hope obvious, after so much existential writing. To my eye talk of carrying lions or of being crucified ...

Posting an Ayn Rand question should lead to immediate banning.

Further, in humans, the more intelligent ones seem to be the ones that are hardest to train. They keep going off and doing other things.

Beat me to it. Hence the answer to the titular question is "No".

What to do here. "...what is true can be relative or absolute..." Are you claiming that any truth can be either relative or absolute? "...relative to ...

A belief might be said to have power 'to the extent that it's convincing or otherwise compelling'; not a truth - that is, to consider 'the extent that...

There's more to T-sentences than redundancy. I'm thinking more of Davidson. Structuring an assertion requires belief, and truth is a predicate of asse...

I hope it is clear from my last that I think this is the wrong answer.

OK - so how does it commit me to a non-redundant truth?

Re-writing the OP, so that it makes sense to me: "All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation is believed at a given time is a ...

Not at all. Yep.

You can do all that, if you like. Just keep an eye on what you do, so as to not confuse your new creations one with the other. So, for instance: If yo...

I don't see that this distinction can be made to work. But if you want to try, go ahead. Then show how it helps with the topic.

Yes - know in the way not too dissimilar to how you know how to ride a bike, not in the way you know that Brexit is a bad idea.

I agree. :smile:

Yep. So do you think a truth-maker is needed? How could there be one thing that makes each proposition true - a thing shared by all propositions? Nuh....

The context of the garden path you want to wander up? :razz:

What makes what true? "P" will be true IFF P... that's all there is to it, apart from a bit of pragmatics.

Adding the word "absolute" to the word "truth" only causes discombobulation. Like adding "Pink" to "disestablishmentarianism"...

What might that mean... that you can choose whatever you wish, and call it "true"? Sure, but that does not make it true.

...and brings out the fiat; "the world is this-and-so". Of course, the world does not care what you believe; truth has the last say. If you like, that...

Seems to be way off topic. Can you lead us back?

What if it was "All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation is believed at a given time is a function of power and not truth"?

A wise move!

That doesn't look right.

It must be so; I've long had difficulty with the way philosophers talk about concepts. Are there concrete concepts, to oppose to abstract concepts? An...

I can't make sense of their approach, either; there's a need for some ethical principle, therefore there must be a god...

I'm not sure to what you are referring.

Hm. Seems to me that the issue is an inability on your part to see the argument before you.

So far as I can see, the only clear way for the bits of this puzzle to fit together is if omnipotence, omniscience and omnibenevolence are independent...

Sure. There's a clear way to make sense of "This sentence is not provable", shown by the use you mention. "This sentence is not true" has no similar p...

:joke: You are doing enough of that for all of us.

Snips. Dibs not me.

Well, I don't think your arguments amount to much. So, yes. Fine; so don't reply. You don't have to be here. That says nothing. Further, the anthropom...

Not sure why you said this, nor what it could mean for reason not to be bound by the law of non-contradiction.... But leave that as moot. Consider you...

That looks like a contradiction.