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iiioiia t1_iqxqeom wrote

> >>All speaking is always done from an unavoidably relative perspective.... > > >False. > > >Also: requires omniscience. > > Unsubstantiated balderdash.

Please present your proof then...or at least some sort of evidence.

> As I've patiently explained to you several times, in different ways and across several conversations, and you have failed to address let alone refute in every instance, there isn't any absolute distinction between facts and beliefs you assume and wish there were.

Ok then, would you be comfortable with acknowledging that everything you say is merely your opinion then?

Also: would it be too much to ask for you to STOP READING MY MIND?

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iiioiia t1_iqwea8t wrote

> All speaking is always done from an unavoidably relative perspective....

False.

Also: requires omniscience.

> that is a factual certainty, given the nature of speech, consciousness, and metaphysics.

Actually, it is a belief.

> Since I never used the word "equals"

My complaint is that you seem to be using another word, but with that meaning.

> ...and it has nothing to do with the conversation...

This is a belief.

> ...and it is rarely used except by tossers pretending to have absolute perspectives or someone pronouncing "=" out loud, your initial comment on the matter, and all your follow up comments, consititue flailing.

This is rhetoric. Also consciousness in action.

> > > > Thanks for your time. Hope it helps.

It does! And thank you for your time, as always.

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iiioiia t1_iqw766d wrote

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iiioiia t1_iqp0m77 wrote

>Since you probably...

Of course.

>Can I ask whether you believe that the content of an opinion determines or can be determined by whether it is considered (presumably by either you or whoever holds that opinion) to be objective?

I believe so.

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iiioiia t1_iqonpwf wrote

>Scientists have requirements that are essentially cultural. "Science" as an abstraction does not, and cannot, or at least should not.

There is a very real difference between abstract ~intentions and object level behavior.

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iiioiia t1_iqon7qe wrote

>>But I would argue that the content of the opinion, if aligned with that outside state of affairs, is more likely to align with generalizable truths. In that way, it is what makes it objective.

>I feel like you are working hard to declare that the content of an opinion (which is to say, the opinion) is either what determines, or can be determined by, whether it can be considered "objective".

This seems like the opposite of my interpretation of the text.

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