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Originally posted by Pathfinder
I do not care to engage in pure philosphical rhetoric. I have found philosophical discussions to be a composition of a play on words, and ultimately circular.
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If you reduce any discussion of anything it to its component parts you will invariably end up in one of the philosophical quagmires I illustrated above. The only way to avoid it is having conversations with people who can't deconstruct arguments very well
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mjoon:
Perhaps it may be more rational to say that for pragmatic reasons we may consciously choose to make the assumption of the "truth" of a given logic system but acknowledge that there is no theoretical reason for doing so
Perhaps too , we must acknowledge that we are boring the shit out of most ppl on this board..
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Agree on both counts
Discussing that stuff on a webmaster board makes me feel like a pedant.