The pattern, were you agree with the critique of your position, only to snap back of a sudden to were you started, is repeating. — Banno
You can’t say “better” in any meaningful way. — Fire Ologist
This thread has been better — Banno
What is odd to me is not that you don’t agree with me, but that you see your own position as coherent.
You can’t say “better” in any meaningful way. I agree we could all agree something is better, but who really gives a shit what we think? Certainly nobody in 100 years.
I’m trying to say something, anything, one thing, that someone might give a shit about in 1,000 years, or if they were an alien race of persons 10,000 years advanced, or a god. — Fire Ologist
I think they would all agree the LNC will always help clarify reasoning.
I am going for it, anyway, despite stepping out too far over the precipice.
And I see you doing the same but you won’t admit it.
The LNC is an absolute. Maybe someday we’ll find we can use reason while contradicting reason, but probably not, so I see no need to say the LNC is merely stipulated and temporary and provisional awaiting its revision. It’s absolute - I can’t think otherwise and be thinking. — Fire Ologist
Personally I know that what I say is in the face of an absurd world -- so it will only matter locally. — Moliere
"I can't think otherwise" is usually a hint at a kind of transcendental argument going on, if it be articulated. — Moliere
How locally? Just for you, in your own head so to speak, or how wide can the local go, and why do you think that? — Fire Ologist
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