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- david...
Absolutely it is ethical. In fact, I’d argue that voting when one knows they are actually voting against another candidate is the less ethical behavior.... As a provocation, I’d prefer: No statement / belief is true, including this one. ---- I prefer it when sentences that are grammatically knowledge claims ("X is Y", "X is not Y") are spoken because the speaker actually is making a knowledge claim.... - xander...
This is like saying it’s a shame that a knife might cut you when you use it like a screwdriver. It’s a knife, it’s not a multi-tool, or philosophy, or way of looking at the world, it’s a knife, designed to cut away the false.... I have similar preferences. And agree abt koans… if they can make logical sense they’re not a great koan actually Also I appreciate the link to motte-and-Bailey-I’d heard it used but hadn’t dived in deeply abd it’s a wonderful concept.... The root of the disagreement in this thread seems to stem from fundamental differences in how the participants view the nature of beliefs, truth, and how statements about them should be interpreted.... More specifically, I think Terrence is doing the very thing he’s critiquing, unfortunately. (although of course maybe I’m missing something) eg: > One claim by Terrence is that 0 x 1 apple being equal to zero apples is nonsensical because you’ve destroyed something that used to...