So after a series of evasive one-liner deflections, the confession of the lack of any reasonable counter. — apokrisis
But if you like, you could explain the belief-truth thing, and explain to people how we do not know how high Mount Everest is. — Banno
IN any case, when I have attempted any sort of analysis of your claims, you avoid them. — Banno
Yep. Words can only function as constraints on interpretance. — apokrisis
Again, your response founders on a failure to recognise that language games must create their speakers along with their worlds. — apokrisis
Agency ought to be attributed to those who use words and language, not to the words and language themselves. — Metaphysician Undercover
Language does not create speakers, speakers create language — Metaphysician Undercover
No, words cannot function as constraints, the interpreter is free to interpret words in any way one desires, at the risk of misunderstanding what was meant. — Metaphysician Undercover
If interpretation is all there really is - there is no dualistic interpreter that is the soul exerting it’s further point of view - then my account describes the situation. — apokrisis
There is no such thing as interpretation without something which is doing the interpreting. — Metaphysician Undercover
↪Banno So I gave you your answer on definitions. How does this next deflection relate? — apokrisis
A clue. In multiple posts I’ve said that truth is the limit of rational inquiry. So it is belief exhausted in that regard for all practical purposes. And the limit is thus defined by the principle of indifference. We have no good reason to worry about the possible remaining differences or exceptions. — apokrisis
So where is the problem with that position exactly? — apokrisis
OK, if you prefer, I say it is true that Paris is the capital of France.
Again, from your answer, you can't say that. You can only approximate it in some way - and I'm not going to guess how. — Banno
The Peircean idea is that exhaustive inquiry by a community would lead to a single agreed conclusion which, by definition, would be true. — Andrew M
I am aware it is something like that — Banno
The trouble is, even after the extensive process proposed, the community might be wrong. — Banno
Thanks - I am aware it is something like that. The trouble is, even after the extensive process proposed, the community might be wrong. — Banno
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