I didn’t predict anything about what my interlocutors think: I made an accurate comment about ordinary people at large.
think what I said is that it is about categorical rights and wrongs if it is about anything. NMJ seems to think it is about nothing. If you think it is about something else,you need to say what:: I cannot guess.
You cannot guess? Do you not see the irony in making this request?
Here is the situation: people often use a single word (such as ‘good’) to mean many different things. Thus, if you wish to use the word to mean something in particular—especially in an argument about that word! - you might have to define your own meaning.
Besides—the behemoth Opal (“ordinary people at large”) is a poor judge of many things.
Making the categorical/hypothetical distinction is a way of refining the meaning. I’m already there (although I am getting accused of pedantry for my efforts).
I didn’t predict anything about what my interlocutors think: I made an accurate comment about ordinary people at large.
think what I said is that it is about categorical rights and wrongs if it is about anything. NMJ seems to think it is about nothing. If you think it is about something else,you need to say what:: I cannot guess.
You cannot guess? Do you not see the irony in making this request?
Here is the situation: people often use a single word (such as ‘good’) to mean many different things. Thus, if you wish to use the word to mean something in particular—especially in an argument about that word! - you might have to define your own meaning.
Besides—the behemoth Opal (“ordinary people at large”) is a poor judge of many things.
Making the categorical/hypothetical distinction is a way of refining the meaning. I’m already there (although I am getting accused of pedantry for my efforts).