Skepticism and The Normal

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!

One more time Blisterbrain, and I'm sure you won't be disappointed, this isn't a discussion. Unfortunately "discussion" is a concept slightly beyond the grasp your retarded slug like intellect.

As you were saying... truth, reason, critical thinking? What's your understanding of these novel concepts? Do tell!
 

Nah! Troll's the word, and
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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. :)
 
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One more time Blunderboy - and sing in tune this time:
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the name. Trolling's the game!

Stop posting Bubblefish's real name. If you continue to do so, you will face suspension or banning.
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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.


Probably the best question I have ever been asked, and the first time someone asked it like this! Man am I glad I came to a critical thinking discussion forum, boy was that badscience.com a real dud!

And the answer is very simple and very very interesting to explore. Although subjective statements tell us nothing about the objectivity in the statement, they inform us of objective 'events'' about the person making them. They are almost a virtual read-out of the internal workings of the subjective experience and environment.

Through dialectic, continual tit for tat and exchange of truth values, this is how we can come to *see* what each other means. Sometimes, it's not so nice to *see* what someone means, especially when they have personality disorders, it can actually be alarming.

This is highly relevant in behavorial game theory.


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.

hmm, I do think I do point that out. I only call them false because they ARE false relative to the true. They function as false, so I call them false.

Understanding *false* as something more expansive than simply not true is the *key* to getting this, by the way.

I could not believe how many false ideas I had about false when I got this, it was sort of humbling, and funny.

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.

I would say it's not a false statement, it's a true statement, unless you were lying. Could you use a better example?

How about I give one?

"Miles Davis and Gil Evans recorded the most beautiful albums of the 20th Century"

That's a personally true statement, and an objectivly FALSE idea.

I deconstruct things down to ideas, not statements.



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.

You will find that once you get this, you will be able to describe things perfectly that you never could previously, and sometimes many people wont understand you because they dont get it, but you would not phrase your statements the way your suggesting either.

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).

yes. or statements you believe to be completly true statements honestly.

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.

that may be the case, and if so, I apologize, I'm really doing the best I can, but I dont think that is purely the case. These are very difficult distinctions to communicate via text alone. It has to do with analytical intelligence and intuitive intelligence, and since intuition is so subjective, it creates some problems.

I am looking for the simplest way to explain these distinctions in commonly used language, so if you can help, I appreciate!

And it doesn't help when you start deliberately using words in a manner contrary to their commonly agreed definition.

where do you find that I do this? I dont believe that I do this, but may be mistaken, can you assist here?



Thank you, much respect

Bubblefish
 
One more time Blunderboy - and sing in tune this time:
****** the name. Trolling's the game!

PV, I just reported this post of yours. This will be the second complaint about the same activity from a new member who obviously signed up to troll my thread.

I wonder how that will be recieved? let's wait and see. Other than that, you were at least being funny before.

This, however, is just disrespectful.
 
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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. :)

now the third complaint has just been sent in.


One complaint and request for removal for each post. 3 posts, 3 complaints, 3 violations.
 
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.

well put! Objective reality gives us perfect agreement.

we only disagree when we confuse our subjecive reality as objective and the objective reality as subjective. it is really no more complex than that
 
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.

Are you guys telling me you didnt get my OBVIOUS JOKE?

internet search engine from the late 19th century? can you imagine?

You think I would have discussions like this for four years and not know or come across boolean til now?

C'mon prof......distinguish.....

0=meaning
1=text
2=interpretation

or

0=text
1=objective honest statement
2=joke
 
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.


ahhh, so you're now suggesting that my work (dialectic) and my discussions are signs of some sort of mental distress?

Well I will have you know, i do see a therapist from time to time! Charming lady. Met her a few months ago to get some assistance in patching together some communication between me and the missus, and decided to see her once or twice privatly.

I told her exactly what I do, she got a good hoot over it. the only thing she told me is that i should quit smoking.

By the way, nice low blow! Sort of along the same lines as "who do you believe, me or your lying eyes?"

kinda a disgusting point of view you have there!

Lotsa Frontal Lobe,
Bubblefish
 
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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.

surely and indeed, the future is always a mystery that is both true and false at once and indistinguishable.

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.

exactly, this is not a question of knowledge, it is a question of understanding. Knowledge is what is meaningless if there is no understanding.

We need three values for understanding knowledge, at least, if we want to think critically.
 
Bubblefish, I'll address your idiotic repsponse and leave it at that:

I am no more emotional over your idiocy than I am emotional over seeing dead worms on the pavement. You have very clearly shown that you do not wish to discuss anything, to learn anything, and are fairly hellbent on dancing whatever dance you can come up with to stick to your own delusions of grandeur that you have some fanciful revolutionary idea. There is no third value. You're a troll.
 
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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?


so to respond to your random example

0=perinormal (possibly qi)
1=normal (not qi)
2=paranormal (possibly qi)
 
now the third complaint has just been sent in.


One complaint and request for removal for each post. 3 posts, 3 complaints, 3 violations.

So lets' see mr troll, you're trying to get me banned for revealing what is public knowledge anyway. And I have revealed what a liar you are by your non-disclosure of your own interest. How can I be trolling a thread that you have specifically set up for the purpose of trolling? Have you claimed all trolling rights for yourself, just like you claim all rights to truth, reason and critical thinking? You abuse any member who points out the falseness of your position and you have the temerity to accuse me of trolling! You're an idiot.
Have you also explained to the moderator how you revealed the identity of a Badscience forum member merely out of spite? How you abused any and everybody at Badscience? How you posted exactly the same meaningless garbage at Badscience and trolled for all you were worth? Well, have you? I doubt it! I think this makes you, in addition to trolling your own purpose built thread, in addition to being an ill mannered boor, in addition to being a pathological liar, in addition to being a sad pointless squit of a human being, an unmitigated spineless hypocrite. You like to dish it out, like the bully you are, but you can't take it can you. What a pathetic whingeing troll you are.
Grow up moron. Act your age instead of your single digit IQ and get a life!
 
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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?

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.
 
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?

damn! where are those laughing rolling smilies when you need them?

I can perfectly account for all behavior on this thread inside of this framework far more objectivly I suggest than you Captain Atheist.
 
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.

I'll ignore your opinion and address the critical aspect of your question, if you dont mind. I still want to respect you since I read and responded to your wonderful previous post.


Here is what I am saying.

1.) All ideas can either be true, false, or mystery, and can be represented by the number set 0, 1, 2 as perfect symbols which carry those distinctions and relationships in the ordering and counting sense mathematically.

2.) All ideas replicate, duplicate, spread, multipily, divide, and add in a manner similar to cell division/DNA/RNA via human being as messenger.

3.) All ideas conflict or have the potential of conflict

4.) All ideas influence human behavior, and all human behavior influence the perceptible value of idea

5.) Human Beings are not ideas.

6.) All problems of human dilemma relating to conflicting ideologies can be said to be resolved when all sides win in the conflict of idea. In common language, all problems are solved effectivly and for certain when all sides win.
 
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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.
No. You stated that 2+2=5 was a subjective statement. Now substantiate your claim.
 
Bubblefish, I'll address your idiotic repsponse and leave it at that:

.

how so? Why not address my honest critical arguments? Hmm?

who cares what your opinion is? I mean does opinion really mean anything in critical and objective thinking?


0=point of view
1=objectivity
2=opinion

I challenge you to return to this discussion using honesty and critical thinking, and to challenge me to do so as well.
 
No. You stated that 2+2=5 was a subjective statement. Now substantiate your claim.


Yes, i did say it is a subjective statement, but your question was not to back my claim, your question was "what was the subjective event?" as in what was the experience of the observer who made the statement, and I'm sure you can agree, no one can ever know the exact experience of another, that's rather impossible!

If your asking for an answer in princaple, the subjective event was intuition, or more precisely intuition misplaced as critical thinking, or as I like to call it, thinking with the feelings.
 

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