Skepticism and The Normal

Welcome to ignore.

Oh, sorry Zaay, I assume when you bring teasing and name calling into the discussion, you agree that it is a mutual playing field. I assume when you 'bash' others for what they believe (homeopathy, qi kung practiioners, etc etc) that you yourself are also light hearted about being teased.

I guess you have your rules. No mispellings of asimov, and no teasing refrences to your beliefs.

Very one sided. Oh well, I guess that is exposed now too.

Interesting , you are leaving the discussion at the same moment your inner contradictions have been isolated and revealed.

The discussion is going to continue on in your head, regardless.

Io PAN!

BF
 
anyway, good morning all. have to get to work now, more responses later.

My, I really am feeling quite a kinship with all of you. How about we all meet up at burning man this year?;-)
 
So have I, so have many others. But we seem to manage all right. :rolleyes:

Thanks Zep, that will do for starters. At least we can remember what BF has posted, evemn if he can't.

BF, this might be of interest to you:
http://www.apa.org/journals/features/psp7761121.pdf

Check out all studies, especially:

study #1: Humour
study #2: Logical reasoning
study #3: Grammar


People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. The
authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these
domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make
unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it. Across 4
studies, the authors found that participants scoring in the bottom quartile on tests of humor, grammar, and
logic grossly overestimated their test performance and ability. Although their test scores put them in the
12th percentile, they estimated themselves to be in the 62nd. Several analyses linked this miscalibration
to deficits in metacognitive skill, or the capacity to distinguish accuracy from error. Paradoxically,
improving the skills of participants, and thus increasing their metacognitive competence, helped them
recognize the limitations of their abilities.
It is one of the essential features of such incompetence that the person
so afflicted is incapable of knowing that he is incompetent. To have
such knowledge would already be to remedy a good portion of the
offense. (Miller, 1993, p. 4)

Jim
 
Stephan Colbert is truly the most extraordinary dialectician I have witnessed, approaching dialectic from purely the *2* value, yet communicating and addressing so much objective truth at the same time.

Check out this clip from last nite's episode on his show, regarding his new Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream Flavor, Colbert's 'the Americone Dream'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press/2007/03/06/360-degrees-of-flavor-_e_42759.html

Consider this value of truth and how it orders truth quite distinctivly from, say, my other favorite extraordinary dialectician, Robert Wright.

Note how both styles perfectly reflect dialectic as a whole. Dialectic is both an art and a science, a performance and a rational dialogue.

OS 012 allows those distinctions to operate clearly and distinctivly, yet utterly harmoniously.

Our internal worlds are distinguishable as 'thinking' and 'feeling' in simple common language. Our objectivity in truth is exalted by thinking, which exalts into logic, mathematics, science. Our subjectivity in truth is exalted by feeling and experiencing, which exalts our dreams, visions, explorations, expressions, sensations, rhetoric, prose, poetry.

These two values, 1 and 2, true and false, are hardly contradictory, they are mutually supportive and equally interdependent.

Yet each one can have a dominant and submissive expression. Colbert dominates the 2 value, it's art and falseness is objectivly observed, it's hidden or meta truth is intuited with a wink and a nod, again, mutually experienced. Wright dominates the 1 value, yet through his consistant usage of rational and considering dialectic, we begin to see more of him, what his personal values are, what is world view is.

0, 1, and 2 recapitulate and are continual.

have fun with yer new OS!

Bubblefish
 
huh? Dictionairy writers do not orginate what they write in the dictionairy, they are compilers of words, not the grand prescribers of words!
The trouble with "dictionairies" is that you need to know how words are spelled to find out what their prescribed meaning is.

Oh well, at least you're no longer talking about meanings of words being "proscribed in the dictionary" (even if this does appear to be objectively true of some of the meanings that you apply to them).
 
The trouble with "dictionairies" is that you need to know how words are spelled to find out what their prescribed meaning is.

exactly, that is the trouble with them, which is why i just love google. I just google my word and it corrects it for me, then provides the definition in one swell simple move.

Hey, I think you will dig google. just check it out. Also, wikipedia is cool too.

Oh well, at least you're no longer talking about meanings of words being "proscribed in the dictionary" (even if this does appear to be objectively true of some of the meanings that you apply to them).

exactly, I was misusing the word proscribe, and it was all of you that brought that to my attention, and if it wasnt for you, i would not have won that idea in combat.

thank you so much for your service!

BF
 
Then, interestingly enough, there is the anagram. Rearrange every letter in 'High Intelligence Productions' and you get 'Historic enlightend coupling'.

I prefer "Hotchpot indulging resilience", it seems just so much more appropriate! :)
 
I got attached to words and language?

Yes, you got attached to words and languages, wanna know how?

Well yes, in that I responded to what you wrote.

and you reacted to what you 'felt' my words meant. You're 'attached' to words via feelings.

You see that's pretty standard practice when communicating, to react to what someone says or writes.

I see that is standard for you to react to words, but in rational and honest dialectic, we dont react to words, rather, we consider words and meaning, i.e. trying to see what the opponent 'means', not what our reactions mean. Our reactions are most likely always going to be highly subjective

Of course that does require that you are communicating with someone who actually says what they mean, uses language in a standard and consistent way, and doesn't require several "passes" just to make themselves clear.

Well then what is your excuse? I say what I mean, and communicate with perfect honesty. Yet the more honest i become, the more confused you get.

Consider; meta logic or a subject matter of this scope, very few people get it 'on the natch', and such people generally have gotten something similar from another framework already. So it taking a couple of passes to clarify meaning is completly rational and normal with honest people.

I can see that a different approach may be required here, perhaps we should open your head and try to observe directly what you have there in place of a brain.

Ahh, I see you are introducing quite an outlandish claim regarding biology! So tell me more about this theory, you are saying that certain members of homo sapiens sapiens can actually have a different organ in the head other than the brain?

My my my, and you all think Rupert Sheldrake is outlandish!

Okay, back to your old confusion

All ravens are made of rock" is a subjective statement.

Nope, it pertains to, and deals with, objects and matters external to the mind in terms not dependent on personal preference.

Flim, my man, think about the absurdity of what you just wrote. You are saying that the statement "All ravens are made of rock" deals in matters and objects external to the brain. Well, if that were true, then we would find ravens made of rocks, as that is the 'matter' of the statement!

I'm sure glad FOX News here in America hasnt heard of your argument yet, they would love it. Why, when asked how their reports contain so many factual errors when we depend upon objectivity in journalism, FOX News could respond "Hey, what are YOU talking about, they are OBJECTIVLY FALSE STATEMENTS! Therefore, they are written in the highest standard of objectivity!"

And note here too, my man flim, the distinction between an OBJECTIVE statement, and an objectively FALSE STATEMENT. Note the LY on the end of OBJECTIVELY.

That makes it an adverb, dig? An adverb indicates manner, time, place, cause, or degree and answers questions such as "how," "when," "where," "how much".

And 'OBJECTIVE' in a 'objective' statement is an adjective, which modifies a noun or a pronoun by describing, identifying, or quantifying words. An adjective usually precedes the noun or the pronoun which it modifies.

And think about this, ya moo moo. In OS 012 ternary logic, "all ravens are made of rocks" is still a FALSE STATEMENT. a false statement in OS 012 is an OBJECTIVELY FALSE STATEMENT.

So have you bothered to ask yourself how it is that we both agree the statement is false, yet you are arguing with me that OS 012 is inconsistant and give me this as a rebutal?


The statement says what it says.

What it says is false. You are unaware of your meta argument, and metalogically, you are TELLING YOURSELF that all ravens are rocks is true because you are telling yourself that a false statement is a result of objectivity.

To clarify: "All members of the species Corvus Corax are composed of the stratified or igneous mineral constituents of which the earth's crust is composed."

O thank you, I didnt understand it before when you wrote it in common language, you know how us intellectuals are, cant stand the common tongue. Anyway, it's still false. You focusing on the form, as in the logical form is tautologically true,(X contains C) yet the inherent content is false (x is animate matter, C is inanimate matter). So you are saying that all tautologically true statements are objective statements, even if they are objectively false.

True, such a statement does imply the existence of both ravens and rock but does not say that ravens are rocks, merely that they are made of rock.

To deconstruct your argument, you statement says animate matter is composed of inanimate matter, and that's an objective statement because you said it!

Please stay away from blogs or any responsible position where you are editing news media! It's bad enough your spreading this in a public forum as it is.

Well that's a pretty good refutation of OS012 right there.

Oh an astounding one!


It's not a subjective statement because we have shared, solid definitions of "raven" and "rock", unlike "beautiful" or "awesome".

huh? if you look up beautiful and awesome in the dictionary, you will find definitions of those words too.

According to you, the statement;"Newspaper taxi's appeared on the shore, waiting to take me away." is also an objective statement because we have shared meaning of newspaper and taxi, as well as beach. Although no one has ever seen a newspaper taxi on the beach, other than John Lennon on LSD. LSD is a powerful mind altering substance that allows people to have powerful SUBJECTIVE experiences.

The statement wasn't used in poetry or prose and certainly did not communicate a personal truth, feeling, or experience.

Then what was it used for and what did it communicate in truth value?

Since it is something that I have never, felt, experienced or considered to be true. So what was your point again?

Sorry Flim, but you composed that sentence in creative mode, not rational and objective mode. And you cant base the sentence on soley your usage of it! That's absurd! Your claiming the only value of your sentence is when it is used in an example to refute objectivity! That's magical thinking.

If one's intention is to be objective and describe reality as they believe others see it as well, no one would write "all ravens are made of rocks". And if anthropologists from the future stumbled upon that phrase in the future, I sure hope they wont judge you as a scientist on the objective face value of the statement! Rather, a statement like that can, in princaple, be appreciated as a subjective prose. If it isnt used subjectivly for personal expression, it STILL HOLDS NO OBJECTIVE VALUE other than an example of a OBJECTIVELY FALSE STATEMENT that could only function metalogically as a subjective phrase.

You're correct though that an objective statement refers to some observable object.

Thank you, and how then could an objective statement refer to both an objectively viewable object to be objective, and also refer to objects that do not exist to be also objective? Would'nt that be contradictory?


No, "Betty is hotter than Wilma" is a subjective statement because, although it refers to observable objects, it does so in terms based on personal preference i.e., people's individual, subjective perception of "hotness".

We all know what 'hotness' means, however. If I think betty is hotter than wilma, and you think wilma is hotter than betty, we all know what we are each getting out of it, right? We agree that both of us are turned on, just not by the same woman. Both betty and wilma exist, and each one of them capable of 'hottiness' to a subjective viewpoint in princaple, where as there is absolutly NO subjective viewpoint that could observe honestly and externally 'ravens are made of rocks'

Where have I contradicted myself?

"All ravens are made of rocks" is an objective statement because it is objectively false is your contradiction. It's a contradiction in reality to the only thing 'objective' can mean, existing independently of a subjective view.

Here comes another contradiction:So now, I can say that 'all girls are really tall boys and all tall boys are really girls' is also an objective statement in your meaning. Right?

Yes, a false objective statement.

Flim, you really need to get your truth values situated. Do you know what TRUE means? do you know what it 'can' mean? Do you realize how contradictory your own personal metalogic of 'true' is revealed here?

Something that is 'true' has 'existence', right? So 'false', as you use the term, is something that is 'not true', correct? So if false is 'not true', then false refers to something that does not exist, right? So when you say a 'false objective statement', you do realize that you are also saying that the objective statement does not exist, it is false, not true.

Yes, you did contradict him: you said he was wrong. Go back to the definition of "contradict" and notice that it does not mean "disprove" or "refute". You didn't prove him to be in error or that his arguments were self-contradictory. In fact, allow me to summarise your arguments that you think disproved Jonny's:

---My definitions are correct, yours are wrong. I'm right. Blah, blah blah... roughly a page of extraneous bollocks... blah blah blah. I'm right---

umm, I dont think those are my words. and besides, Jonny removed himself from the tit for tat process, so I rebutted, and he didnt. Therefore, my truth advanced, and his didnt. It's no more complex than that.

What's to rebut? You didn't actually create an argument, you just restated over and over again in different ways, and with no reference to external evidence that you were right. Which is exactly what you are doing here.

dude, you can either agree with what I write in contradiction to your statements, or you can disagree. If you disagree, then you can put forth your disagreement.

So put forth your disagreement to my rebuttals in this exchange, or note where you agree.

This is your assumption Bubb, and just your assumption. It is the reason that you think I am contradicting myself and it happens to be wrong. Do you deny that the statement "Bubb is wearing a pink frilly dress" deals with something external to the mind (i.e., you) just because it is incorrect?

If bubb is not wearing a pink frilly dress, then how could it deal with something external to the mind? It's dealing with something INTERNAL in SOMEONE's MIND, you dirty pervert!

I happen to be wearing blue jeans that snug my cute tush.

We strategize in binary, which cannot account for the uncertainty conceptually, so we naturally fail to incude uncertainty into our logic and framework.


in general, yes. By we I mean us human people.

Although statements about the real world are true or false we deal every day with statements whose truth value we don't know, we use a best guess or delay until we have more information.

Exactly, the logic process stops because it has no logical deduction it can make given the facts, so it 'fills' in the blanks with 'guesses', 'intuitions', 'hunches', and then plots objectivly around those false ideas, which is simply irrational and doenst make much sense, as you could imagine.


Like Z said to understand the world we probably tacitly use a multi valued logic.

huh? ternary logic is a mutli valued logic, so if zaay said that, then he agrees with me.


I would suggest categories such as "statments whose truth value I will never know", "statements whose truth value I don't need to know", "statements whose truth value I will know in the future", "statements whose truth value I need to find more evidence to discover now" etc.

that's fine as a heuristic, but it's not a logical relationship, and all of those statements are simply doing is refering to the third value, or a third value event. Why make it so complex?

So you're still not going to take it like a man and admit that you're wrong eh?

Sure, I admit when I am wrong all the time, and have a few times on this threads, and when I do, i also apologize to the community.

But they can't both apply. They're diametrically opposite things.

Watch a contradiction to your statement occur before your eyes.

"I know that I dont know". That's both knowing and not knowing at the same time, two diametrically opposite things occuring at once.


any rebut which the framework recieves which proves itself to be logical and more effecient simply gets upgraded into the framework
Care to reveal how Bubb? Or would that involve actually explicitly stating that it's all a load of nonsense.

sure, through discussions just like this. For example, there are six 'laws' of ternary dialectic. Right now ,you are just trying to rebut one of those laws, which is "All ideas can either be true, or false, or mystery". Both you and Zaay, and a few others, are trying to convince me that all ideas are only true and false. then you are arguing that false ideas are really true ideas. Now, that doesnt make much sense to me so far, your arguments that is, especially when we already have confirmation of formalized ternary logic, research which shows ternary logic to be a metalogic, and bivalent logic merely a subset of ternary logic, and also new information coming in now that our brains are ternary in nature.

However, I am still willing to hear your case further! (being of infinite compassion and patience, my joy is only to see your joy)

You see, this is what you just have to be a troll Bubb. Nobody can be as stupid and impervious to reason as you are without real effort.

Hmm, does that make you then a troll in my eyes too? NO! For i love you, little flower, and although you're thinking is as stupid as the rocks in those ravens, I know you can do better! And ol fun lovin' bubblefish has plenty of patience for the slow ones. Come on, little turtle, come on!

With much tender patience,
Your Guru,
Bubblefish
 
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You mean your arguments about the meaning of subjective and objective?

Yes, and nice to have you back into some tit for tat, you are always refreshing.

No, you're simply wrong. More precisely, you have applied a very narrow lens when it is improper to do so.

Hmm, that sounds highly subjective to me, Jonny, if we look but close into your sentence. You are saying that I have applied in my definitions a 'narrow', meaning in this case I assume 'barely sufficient'. And then you state that I do this when it is 'improper' to do so. Now, I know you, and you are very logical and reasoning, so when you say improper, do you mean in the formal sense?

And i disagree here because my definitions of objective and subjective are far from narrow, they are indeed about as wide as you can possibly get, for they account for all objective and subjective phenomenon, they are the definitions of those things that we naturally apply at a metalogical level.

Notice how my definitions also do not contradict in princaple with any definition in the dictionary.

I pointed out that switching up the two very different meanings of the word "objective" to make it appear that objective statements are always true statements is simple equivocation.

For any statement to use the word 'objective' in the only sense that the word can have logical meaning, the statement must contain mutually viewable information in form and or content (meaning)

There isn't any further possible rebuttal.

Well then how is it then I can rebut it none the less?

You have applied only one possible definition of the word "objective", and it is not the definition generally paired with the word "subjective" (I am being generous, as I cannot find any definition of "subjective" that implies "false" without some mental contortion). I'm not going to get into some verbal boxing match over the well-established meanings of the words.

Jonny, what are you referring to in terms of 'general pairing' of objective and subjective? OS 012 is a framework that is consistant with it's usage of those terms strictly defined, and those defined terms do not contradict the dictionairy or logic. So to me, what you are saying sounds like a personal prefrence, relating to your own personal meaning of objective and subjective, as in how you define it to yourself.

You've consistently avoided the nuance present in the terms you use, insisting that they mean one thing when, in fact, they can and usually do mean something quite different.

Just because people may use things in a certain way does not mean that those usages hold logicaly or philosophically. To use the word objective in the only sense that it can be understood, then objectively viewable information must be present. It's no more complex than that. Objectivity is a harmony of truth, which is a harmony of honesty, which is a harmony of rational thinking. You can't do just one of those things and not the other somehow, rather, you are performing all of those things at once, relative to your operation.

My recollection of our discussion is that I provided a contradiction to your usage of objective statement, and you said you would rather not split hairs over it. Well it's not splitting hairs, it's a contradiction to objective reality.

I produce absolutly no contradictions with objective reality in how terms are defined in OS 012. If I do, then please bring one to my attention. That doesnt mean that some people's subjective meanings of things defined in OS 012 wont experience a contradiction, but I dont appeal to opinion, OS 012 appeals soley to objective reality, and seeks no further clarification other than distinctions that are mutually shared and observed between all points of view.


BF
 
Thanks Zep, that will do for starters. At least we can remember what BF has posted, evemn if he can't.

gee, notice the logical bafflement, spelling, and lack of humour in that post of yours, how astounding then that you provided:


That really clears up further what apparently is ailing all of you. Good work Jim, I think with further encouragment, love and support, you all will soon become aware of your own metalogic!
 
Objective approach as defined in wikipedia

"Taking an objective approach to an issue means having due regard for the known valid evidence (relevant facts and viewpoints) pertaining to that issue. If relevant valid evidence is denied or falsified, an objective approach is impossible. An objective approach is particularly important in science, and in decision-making processes which affect large numbers of people (e.g. politics).

and wiki on problems with defining objectivity (which would refute that OS 012 is against the 'common usage' of objective and therefore false by default)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivity_(journalism)

The concept of objectivity has always been somewhat ambiguous, and both journalists and the public tend to identify objectivity in its absence. Few journalists would make a claim to total neutrality or impartiality. However, most strive toward a certain modicum of detachment from their own personal biases in their news work. In Discovering the News (1978), sociologist Michael Schudson argues that "the belief in objectivity is a faith in 'facts,' a distrust in 'values,' and a commitment to their segregation." In the United States, an objective story is typically considered to be one that steers a middle path between two poles of political rhetoric. The tenets of objectivity are violated to the degree to which the story appears to favor one pole over the other.


Again, like I have said in the past, at the metalogical level, we naturally have perfect agreement on all of these things, however, we all use different language to describe it, and thus our ideas about objectivity, truth, false, etc etc are warped and inconsistant with the only true and objective meaning they could ever be said to have.
 
I also note how a few of you are making another error metalogically, the assumption that it is the intention of the statement that makes the statement objective or subjective.

So statements, then, therefore, mean only what we wish them to mean, and there is no other objective criteria neccesary.

And you all call me humtpy dumpty?? hehe, the metalogic you using if you assume that has humpty written all over it.


BF
 
One of my favorite parts about this job is that I get to observe the 'conflict of idea' about who I am.

I note the more frustrated the opponent in the rational challenge, the more I must be defined as something in thier minds. Some image must take shape, something repulsive, something that could only produce falsehoods in pure form.

This is nothing more than standard straight ahead 'mammalian politics', rhetoric, demonization of the opponent to support thier argument.


...and many others, convince me that Bubb is a straightforward, uninteresting troll whose only aim is to provoke people into responding, regardless of content, by posting things that are illogical, confrontational, contradictory, insulting, inconsistent and generally indicative of a subnormal intelligence. But then he seems such a wealth of links regarding matters philisophical. Admittedly whenever he claims to have properly read/watched such things and that they support or prove his argument he is invariably shown to be talking bollocks.

I mean, there is teasin', which is what I do, which is in the spirit of fun, and then there is just complete trashing of one's character.

Why the need to do so? Because there is a mystery going on right now, a third value event, being myself and OS 012. And instead of just surrendering to a natural process, and allow an unknown to honestly trigger you to ask questions, you all fill in the blanks of the unknown with a false idea about me, and then argue against me from that perception! Do you not see how that projects many of your own qualities objectively out into the world?

So a quick vote, is Bubb just a troll, or do you think he actually believes what he writes and is just functionally a troll by dint of his abrasive, childish style?

Bubb is a crack smoking troll that argues rationaly and objectivly. Since the truth values in OS 012 are objective and observable to all, then even a crack smoking troll like ol fun lovin' bubblefish can see them too.

So if ol crack bubb can see them, and so can many other people see them, then why can't all of you?

(cuz your fillin in that third value in your head with a false idea, that's how)

Neener neener

BF
 
Interesting how, in a thread that has moved (staggered!) down a philosophical and scientific path, you choose to quote a Wiki page that speaks about 'objectivity' in journalism. If I didn't know better I'd think this was more prevarication. Oh, hang on, I do know better, you're a bit of a Wikipedia magpie aren't you?
Take a tip from Wikipedia and provide disambiguation links when you are going to use words in your unique manner. It's a much better way of solving conflict than your crappy 'work in progress'.
 
All ravens are made of rock" is a subjective statement.
If "all ravens are made of rock" is a subjective statement, then whether ravens are made of rock depends on your viewpoint. Do you think that "all ravens are made of rock" can be true from some viewpoints?
 
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Bubb, I really can't be bothered to drag this out. Jonny had the right idea in not getting drawn into a verbal boxing match about the meaning of words, when the basic fact remains that you are wrong. I've tried to point out that if you use language in a non-standard and, more importantly, unsubtle way people will not take to your arguments. This is not so say that your arguments actually have any value, even if people do understand them they may well still reject them, but that's a whole different area that has been pretty thouroughly done. Incidentally this is why I couldn't be bothered discussing Wright and Dennett with you. It's pretty clear that there are some ideas in there that you have misunderstood. But to discuss it with you would involve spending a potentially unlimited amount of time working out what you mean by each inappropriately placed word and then convincing you that communication is much easier and more productive with a shared lexicon.

I get the impression that you've simply assumed that someone who is being objective (unbiased) necessarily produces objective statements and therefore objective must mean "true". This is just not the case (and doesn't necessarily follow logically because of the limits of human objectivity). Since you seem to place great stock in Wikipedia I'll draw some phrases from there to try to illustrate why your incorrect and unsubtle language is simply confusing and has probably led you to confuse yourself. Then I'll stop, because one thing that is clearly objectively true is that you cannot be convinced of something you don't want to be (which appears to be all the time). These are taken from the page on objectivity in philosophy rather than the page on objectivity in journalism (well spotted sinnikal, lovely prevarication Bubb), bolding is mine:

The meaning of the term "objectivity", like the term "subjectivity", is by no means unambiguous, and rather than attempting precision in definition it is more practical to simply illustrate what it involves, and perhaps by elimination, what it is not. The ontological status of a possible objective reality and references towards the objective should not be confused with, or reduced to, the dichotomous relations between object and subject, or subjectivity and objectivity, without considerable qualifications.

The concept of objectivity in philosophy does not necessarily entail notions about a neutral point of view, as the term is defined and prescribed, for example, in such disciplines as journalism

Objectivism, or metaphysical objectivism, is the view that there is a reality or realm of objects and facts existing wholly independent of the mind. Stronger versions of this claim might hold that there is only one correct description of this reality; they may or may not hold that we have any knowledge of it. If it is true that reality is independent of the mind, the reality of objectivism is thus inclusive of objects which one may not know about and are not the intended objects of mental acts. Objectivism, or metaphysical objectivism, is the view that there is a reality or realm of Objectivity in referring requires a definition of what is true, and is distinct from the objects themselves which cannot be said to be true or false.


[Notice Bubb that this is in direct contradiction to what you wrote here:]
Something that is 'true' has 'existence', right? So 'false', as you use the term, is something that is 'not true', correct? So if false is 'not true', then false refers to something that does not exist, right?
An object may truthfully be said to have this or that attribute, such as the statement "This object exists", whereas the statement "This object is true" or "false" is meaningless. Thus, only references, or the statements one makes about objects without assigning truth value to the object itself, are true or false.

In philosophy, objectivity is also considered as the compatibility of propositions distinct and independent of propositional attitudes or acts. A proposition is an objective constituent the meaning of which clearly refers the object or entity being named by it. The value of a proposition is to be either true or false, and its many applications include the axioms and formulas of the sciences and mathematics, as well as the rules and processes of logic.
That will do, if you want to continue to make yourself unintelligible Bubb that's your choice. I think your decision to use language in a way that has made your meaning unclear to everyone that you've encountered says a lot about what you really know, deep down, about the validity of your arguments.
 
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Notice in the definition "opposed to one another". Nowhere in that definition does it say "contradiction: something that is opposed to objective reality".
erf. you are king erf these days. I didnt use the word contradiction because you asked me how I was defining the word. Naturally i don't want to use the word in my definition, that's cheating!
Duhhhhhhh, notice the colon bubb! Since you obviously don't know what a colon is used for I'll clarify: the thing being specified comes before the colon, the definition comes after the colon. Therefore the word "contradiction" was not included in the definition of the word "contradiction", unsurprisingly.

So, for clarification: "contradiction" does not mean "in opposition to objective reality".

"Objective" does not mean "true" either so there is no contradiction in "objective(ly) false"

Every time you say that you have disproved that a statement is objective by "noting a contradiction" by which you mean "noting that something opposes objective reality" you've actually disproved nothing because you are misusing both terms.

Seriously Bubb, shared language is probably the greatest achievement of the human race. Try it sometime.
 
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