If you don’t think there’s any argument that can convince an intelligent person who disagrees with you, it fundamentally means that you didn’t reach your current position via argumentation. You are implicitly conceding that your belief is not based on rational argument—for, if it were, you could spell out that argument.
The world is not made of arguments. Most of the things you know, you were not “argued” into knowing. You looked around at your environment and made inferences. Reality exists distinctly from the words that we say to each other and use to try to update each others’ world-models.
It doesn’t mean that.
You’re right that I just don’t want to participate further in the debate and am probably being a dick.
The world is not made of arguments. Most of the things you know, you were not “argued” into knowing. You looked around at your environment and made inferences. Reality exists distinctly from the words that we say to each other and use to try to update each others’ world-models.
It doesn’t mean that.
You’re right that I just don’t want to participate further in the debate and am probably being a dick.