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To: Olog-hai
Hilarious! If philosophers don't get to choose what terms they use to discuss philosophy among themselves, then who does?

Are scientists not allowed to use the word mass to mean resistance to acceleration because it was used long before to mean an assembly of people or a large body of matter?

Philosophers aren't redefining valid in order to obfuscate. They are limiting the definition to one particular meaning in order to avoid obfuscation.

As a conservative I am against equivocation, obfuscation, and ambiguity.

Are you?

30 posted on 05/25/2015 5:33:31 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
Putting words in people’s mouths. One does not get to redefine terms, as already stated.

And now admitting redefinition. Of course it is to obfuscate.
32 posted on 05/25/2015 5:35:31 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

PS. the “(a)s a conservative” statement veers into “no true Scotsman” territory.


33 posted on 05/25/2015 5:38:49 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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