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Some bad decisions are the result of bad environment. Do you recognize that too?

Shake it off! :wink: We can stick with belief if you like. We've had this discussion multiple times. I don't mind doing it a bit differently... Take t...

Tarski's thought, belief, and/or ideas are the standard by which to 'measure' anyone/everyone else's interpretation of Tarski. You and I are largely i...

That claim is true(or not) regardless of Street. If Street claims that Trump supporters are crystal clear about what's important, then I would have to...

Not sure what that matters here... So, because you know of no Trump supporters who are certain(crystal clear) of what's important, there are none?

Try now. I eliminated it.

I like the T-sentence.

I think it can be eliminated. Those particular marks... I mean. Most often though, the reader can choose either one and carry on just fine.

Demand in one hand... shit in the other...

You never answered the question. Will you demand an originalist interpretation?

You'll see it for yourself. Hang tight. Keeping watching. I know you will. You're a media puppet like others here. Have you read the Mueller report? H...

Correspondence. That is what makes statements, beliefs, assertions, thoughts, and propositions true. Correspondence to fact/reality is presupposed wit...

The former is belief not truth. The latter is very problematic, as Banno has been demonstrating. Can we focus upon what counts as good ground to rejec...

Tarski's own thoughts, beliefs, and ideas are the standard by which we determine which report of Tarski is more commensurate with and/or amenable to T...

I do not use the term "truths". That is to conflate true statements, assertions, thoughts, beliefs, and propositions with what makes them so.

No. I want us to list what it takes for statements, assertions, thoughts, beliefs, and propositions to be true.

Doesn't make it true... :smile: What sorts of things can be true/false, and what makes them so? Looks like the most helpful question one can ask when ...

Regarding the idea that truth is redundant. Assuming sincerity in speech, 'X' is equivalent to "X is true" or "I believe X is true". Let X be a belief...

I would beg to differ. :wink: Banno beat me to it. Differently too!

I'm curious... When it comes to establishing the standard, the metric, the criterion for what counts as a clear cut case of an American president abus...

What's the difference between invoking executive privilege and abusing it?

Assuming sincerity in speech... All who claim knowledge of what's important are crystal clear about what's important to them(at the time of speaking)....

I'm not at all certain how you would ground such an objection.

Those who've reasoned their support are prone to reason their way out, but not if they are vilified for being a Trump supporter.

To quite the contrary, the only thing that all Trump supporters have in common is that they are Trump supporters.

That's too broad a brush. Not all Trump supporters think/believe the same things. Explanations with supporting facts easily show/prove beyond a reason...

Look at the governmental institutions. Look at what they've done. Does it make sense for an institution like the Department of Education to take actio...

I agree that the Republican narrative is resistant to change. I do not attribute that resistance to it's cohesiveness.

The Republican narrative has been very cohesive and it has dominated much of the public discourse.

The point, I think, was to point out the power in the consequences of the narrative. Which terms are used to talk about which things makes all the dif...

The importance of this cannot be overstated...

Right. If it's really racism it is never truly definitional. :roll:

All memory meets that criterion.

Bad luck anywhere in there?

Mental trauma? When memories of emotionally devastating situations perpetuate past feelings of fear, anger, and/or insecurity. Internalized? As if mem...

It's always good to be considerate. Being considerate does not equal being defenseless. One can be both considerate and well defended. It's always goo...

Are you asking if being considerate is good while being inconsiderate is not?

Well... If behaving morally/ethically requires being considerate to others, and being mean is a kind of inconsiderate behaviour, then yes... by defini...

I'm always a bit puzzled when someone says that white people cannot 'see' white privilege. Generally speaking, I take the notion of white privilege to...

Yeah.... Nevermind.

Cool. What makes it moral - in kind? What do all moral things have in common such that having it is what makes them moral things, as compared/contrast...

All moral value is value. Not all value is moral value. Agree?

So, are you now rejecting your original argument? The one you just presented is new.

The above is true. We all know that much. Even the OP has admitted not all his values are moral values. What's curious is how he can still somehow thi...

You could always address the earlier arguments. I've shown enough.

Your valuing of things counts as being valued. If being valued is equivalent to being morally valuable, as the premiss clearly sets out, then your val...

I can follow a valid argument just fine. I can also spot a false premiss. Your first premiss(in the OP) is false. Plain and simple. Something being va...

I've no interest in continuing with you . We're way too far apart, and you do not seem to be capable of accurately reporting upon what I have claimed....

That's not an exception. It was never a sound syllogism in the first place. The point was that one candidate is verifiable and the other is not. I'm c...

I'm moving our discussion into the thread with our other one. They're much the same and less external distraction there...