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Exactly.

http://wiki.hmssurprise.org/phase3/images/b/b7/CuntSplice.gif One rope or two?

Oh, come on, have a bit of intellectual courage! If you are right, how could you go wrong?

You might think so, but we have not understood you. At present you appear to be avoiding the discussion with @"SonJnana" rather than helping us unders...

Oh, go on. Answer the question. You might learn something. We might learn something.

SO close...

You are perhaps reaching towards some sort of pragmatic theory of truth - @"apokrisis" might be able to make sense of your comments.

You are right - I apologise. Ah - so you believe that there is at least the possibility of your being wrong...

The humour is still there - just a bit black.

Now, can you at least agree to the entertainment value of such threads?

It would be quite fun to discover that PJ is a bot.

I'm a genius; You are eccentric. He is a crackpot.

Have you noticed the odd grammar? What's that about?

Progress towards what? Some, including myself, have asked PJ what his goal is, what the purpose of the thread is, to no avail. It is quite odd.

Nor I.

How to tell one from the other... Crackpot bad. Eccentric good.

...if you want the discussion to stop.

Ah, I think it clear he thrives on the attention. Who doesn't? That's the food of trolls. My question is more about the difference between the crackpo...

So you can say that such-and-such is true, and yet that you do not believe it. Indeed, I am not capable of such a feat.

So you believe... X-)

I agree; but what exactly makes it so?

I'm curious about the limits of psychoceramics. Is what is happening here so very different from, for example, certain discussions with @"Metaphysicia...

So you did create nonbeliefism?

So, you didn't create nonbeliefism?

So humour me. Did you create nonbeliefism?

Did you create nonbeliefism?

So you, yourself, and despite your own protestations, believe.

Indeed, you rather missed the point that belief is not optional.

@"ProgrammingGodJordan", You like to cite this article. What do you make of this:

Ah... I was making the point that 'justification" is ambiguous, I think. So, does Jack have a justified true belief? The bowl is indeed empty. He beli...

Only my own memory. What was the point of our discussion?

True. It still makes an excellent metaphorical answer. One does not need anything to be the same now as it was then, in order to be the same person no...

Where are we going here? What was the question?

That makes no nevermind here. If every statement may be doubted, then every justification may be doubted. You have no grounds for certainty.

It is what you implied. Before making your move, you have to sit and ponder whether you are presently in such circumstances as to doubt that bishops m...

I didn't set out to contradict you; From my point of view I was making an my ideas clearer with your help, Statements like that don't make much sense ...

What could @"Metaphysician Undercover" mean? Could he be thinking that Wittgenstein is claiming that, that the bishop only moves diagonally must be ne...

And I am left nonplussed. Yes, it is apparent you do not see the contradiction, but there it is!

Sure; and if objective morality is impossible, so is subjective morality. The argument that morality is not objective, therefore it is subjective, is ...

(My italics) I decided to quote this in full, since it shows not only the inoperability of Meta's position, but also the misunderstanding of Wittgenst...

So whether those values are objective or subjective is irrelevant to your decision. And that is where this discussion has been headed. Thanks for play...

So you are certain of it? Here is an odd contradiction, since previously you said SO, it seemed to me that each time you moved a piece, it was incumbe...

Obfuscation. Is there any sort of certainty you are happy with?

But equally, what makes your value system any less than the psychopaths? SO, what moral system will you follow, yours or the psychopaths or the crowds...

Good questions. Suppose for the sake of discussion that you have agreed previously to the moral system; perhaps you believe it to be the undeniable wo...

But what do you think? Try this example. Suppose that there were a moral system that set out for you, in any and every case, what you ought do. Ought ...

SO you are quite happy to make moral decisions without having intrinsic moral guidelines, and without having an objective moral system to refer to?

Again, tell me what you think - is the psychopath right? And what does your answer tell us about you?

Let me give you a more complete example. A nation has sufficient funds to keep for a very, very large army, yet despite not being under imminent direc...