I don’t want to laugh at you, I just can’t help it. Help me to not laugh by learning logic before you claim expertise - your misuse is rife, and this is the exact same experience I had with another newcomer to logic on another Free will thread that lasted far too long. Like I quoted before - chess with a pigeon.
I’ve been thoroughly exhaustive in my process of elimination just now and you call it obfuscation - you can’t make this kinda stuff up
I brought up many many fallacies that you were making because when make arguments they’re riddled with fallacies… I always find the truth easy, but others seem to find it so hard.
The “Ship of Theseus” has been a problem dating all the way back to the ancient Greeks, and you’re acting like I pulled the objection out of my ass in desperation. The philosophical ignorance in this place is just astounding. I mean, for a place that would presumably attract people who love philosophy, there’s certainly some here who never seem to have done very little before. That’s fine if they understand they’re beginners, but if they claim expertise, mastery or even genius - that’s not going to fly I’m afraid.
I know why you soured to me, it’s because I call you out on your shit. I’m not here to make friends and I couldn’t give a shit what anyone thinks of me - I’m just here to grow myself and hopefully teach others so they can grow too. Emotion has no place in rational debate, so love/hate me all you like - just learn how to argue.
I’ve had the same experience before, of something who I kept backing into corners thinking they’ve backed me into one. It’s when you don’t know what’s going on because you’re out of your depth and still can’t shake the perception of yourself as superior - standard Dunning Kruger effect, which to an extent I guess can’t be helped. The trick is a change of mindset, learn to learn: insist to yourself that you are wrong and the other person is right and work it through to see if it works without assuming anything - maybe even adopt their line of thinking as best you can as your own for a while. Don’t simply assume you’re right from the outset, because as soon as you lose an argument and the air clears, you’ll think you’ve won and you’ll learn nothing. This other guy who I mentioned continually misunderstood and misrepresented basic concepts, he also completely lacked the cognitive ability to understand my point of view, and now spends his time on this forum trying to dirty my name by misrepresenting my point of view and mentioning my name over and over - a petty, desperate and vengeful catharsis, obvious to anyone with half a brain. He’s quite easy to spot.
But Ecmandu, I have faith in you that you’ll not sink to his level and honestly search yourself for any signs that you could improve yourself philosophically in any way.
I can help teach you some logical concepts if you want, I only get frustrated with people who insist they are more than they are, and/or people who insist that something wrong is right. Otherwise I’m actually quite an amenable guy and a good teacher. A win-win situation, if you’re interested.