Now, what's the word I'm looking for to describe that obnoxious anti-social form of Internet behaviour?
British?
Now, what's the word I'm looking for to describe that obnoxious anti-social form of Internet behaviour?
hehe, I really appreciate ol nasty PV being here, he's really making this discussion much more fun, eh?
You keep at it PV! Ol bubblefish loves ya and he knows you love ol bubblefish!
British?
How does it help in solving conflict to treat demonstrably false statements (ones that we would call objectively false) as if they are the same as subjective statements of opinion.
And how is it helpful to call both of them false? I notice that even you do not use the word false in that way generally. When someone has made a statement you think is demonstrably untrue, you say that it is false, you don't seem to point out that all sorts of other statements are false by your definition, by way of being subjective.
To conflate the two categories as you would like to do simply obscures meaning. If I said "I like ice cream" and someone told me "that is a false statement", I would assume that the person thought I was lying because of the commonly agreed definition of the word false.
If the person concerned meant that I was giving my subjective view of ice cream, then they should say so, and there would be no misunderstanding. If you deliberately use words with a differentmeaning assigned to it than everyone else does, you are never going to be understood.
I think I now understand why you call both categories non objective. You are not looking at whether the statement can be objectively verified, but whether you consider that the person making the statement is being objective when they make that statement. If you are being perfectly objective, you can only make completely true statements (in your way of looking at things).
The fact that it has taken me (and presumably everyone else here) so long to work this out, is not down to our intelligence, but simply that the way you express yourself makes it very difficult to understand what you mean.
And it doesn't help when you start deliberately using words in a manner contrary to their commonly agreed definition.
One more time Blunderboy - and sing in tune this time:
****** the name. Trolling's the game!
Nah! Troll's the word, and ****** the name. But ya knew that already!!
Btw. Fishbrain, it's been public knowledge on Badscience for weeks. I happen to think it was very kind of me to save the nice folk in this forum the trouble of accidentally stumbling across the information.![]()
I just have a quick comment. I make this because I'm a masochist, obviously, because there is no other logical reason to do it.
2+2 = 4 is an objective event. The means for describing the event is subjective, don't get me wrong, but only insofar as the symbols used; "2+2=4" is different than, say, II+II = IV. But that's about as far as the subjectivity goes.
If I have two apples, and you give me two apples, then I have four apples. There is no question about this. You cannot give me two apples, and then a fifth apple mysterious appears from nowhere. This would break the laws of physics.
And common sense.
This is the exact same tactic Bubblyboy used in the bad science thread, when he was asked whether he knew what double blind meant. When pressed, he said he knew exactly what it meant and had done for years, when his errors were pointed out, he said he was using a "layman's definition" (apparently that means a completely incorrect definition). I think we can draw our own conclusions about whether he knows what boolean means.
Bubba, while you're in contact with Woolly (Wholly to you), here's a bit of his wisdom from BadScience, originally addressed to another poster, it may change your life.
I really think you should stop these conversations. I think you should go back to your Doctor or Psychiatrist, and ask for help. Take a transcript of one of these threads and show them what you've been saying. Take their advice.
Whether or not you take this advice is, of course, entirely up to you.
Have you ever considered Invariantology? They could do with you on the team.
The claim here is of statements about (at least some) future events. The claim is that some future events can still go either way. On the 2nd of Febuary 2007, the proposition "On the 3rd of Febuary 2007 Mangafranga buys an iced-coffee" could not sensibly be said to be either true or false. Because on the 2nd of Febuary 2007 it has not yet happened and in fact could either occur or not occur. The proposition on the 4th of Febuary 2007 "On the 3rd of Febuary Mangafranga buys an iced-coffee" can be given a value of true or false.
The point is that this argument has nothing to do with knowledge. It is not a question of if a person has access to knowledge, or if such knowledge is easily, or even possibly accessable.
Bubba said
So, to quote an example at random, qi energy is paranormal, therefore qi energy is false.
Where does that leave videos that purport to demonstrate its existance, I wonder?
now the third complaint has just been sent in.
One complaint and request for removal for each post. 3 posts, 3 complaints, 3 violations.
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Jonny, the statement 2+2=5 is an attempt to describe something objective, I agree with that, however, it doesn't describe something objective, it is describing a subjective event.
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Then what is the subjective event it is describing?
Doesn't it just say something about the indomitable human spirit that despite Bubblehead being such an obvious (and lame) troll, people still try to interact with him?
OK, let me sweep away the past and start anew: what, exactly, is it that Bubblefish is trying to say? That some things are undetermined? Was that ever in question? I think not.
No. You stated that 2+2=5 was a subjective statement. Now substantiate your claim.Well I can't say for certain, because first off that is an example, and secondly even if it were true, it is impossible to verify the subjective experience of another, we can only go on what they tell us.
We only know that it is a subjective event and nothing more critically. A dream is a subjective event. I dont have to know what your dream is to know that it was an actual subjective event that occurred.
Bubblefish, I'll address your idiotic repsponse and leave it at that:
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No. You stated that 2+2=5 was a subjective statement. Now substantiate your claim.