[MD] Intellect's Symposium

[david buchanan]

Marsha said to dmb:
Look into it?  Your assumptions that I haven't are telling.  Should I try to impress you with my reading list?



dmb says:

I'd be happy if you simply understood the terms you're employing. The fact is, your views can be sharpened and improved by taking the time to learn what words like "contextualism" and "relativism" mean to the people who use them, or even just what it means to people who use dictionaries. 

I'm just not going to argue with you about this, Marsha. You don't know what you're saying. You don't understand the context or the import and, apparently, you don't want to understand. Every time I try to help you cop an attitude wherein it's bad form to quote philosophers in making one's case. But that's where the terms their meaning, that's where the terms are used in practice. That's where "some philsophers hold that context-dependence may lead to relativism". That's just how the game works, lady, and using quotes is a matter of using what's called "textual evidence" In that game such evidence is NOT considered to be an argument from authority. The notion that this is somehow illegitimate is just laughable nonsense. Textual evidence is CONTRASTED with arguments from authority. You don't know what you're talking about in that case either. 

Sorry, but I really don't want to hear it anymore. It's a drag to endure such condescending hostility even when I think it's justified but when it's coming from such an ignorant place, it's just unbearable. I've been pretty nice about it up until now but obviously I'm done with that tactic. 

ContextualismContextualism describes a collection of views in philosophy which emphasize the context in which an action, utterance, or expression occurs, and argues that, in some important respect, the action, utterance, or expression can only be understood relative to that context.[1] Contextualist views hold that philosophically controversial concepts, such as "meaning P," "knowing that P," "having a reason to A," and possibly even "being true" or "being right" only have meaning relative to a specified context. Some philosophers[2] hold that context-dependence may lead to relativism;[3] nevertheless, contextualist views are increasingly popular within philosophy.[4]


 		 	   		  
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