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L&FP, 56: Can we invent or define a nine-sided hexagon?

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One of the many fundamental errors of nominalism is to confuse labels with logic of being substance.

To clarify the matter, let us ponder:

As was noted in the ongoing defending thread:

KF, 839: As a start point for rethinking, please, show us a nine sided hexagon.

(What, you can’t, isn’t the term hexagon just a word we can apply as we please, rewriting the dictionary at will, there is no such thing as a nature so there is no difference. So, on such radical nominalism, there is no difference between truth and error, truthfulness and willful deceit, justice and injustice, male and female, knowledge and myth, indoctrination and education, acquitting the innocent and knowingly condemning such, sound policing and the gestapo. See the nihilistic pattern?)

Believe it or not, there are many otherwise vexed issues that resolve themselves once we recognise this issue. END

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VL/2 It's like W.C. Fields said many years ago "if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with []" You will be missed....chuckdarwin
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I doubt that. Kf is often convoluted, uses arcane references and lacks basic English clarity but is usually correct.jerry
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Context is meaningless to them, KF.ET
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VL & JH, I deliberately used an extreme case to make a point. Thanks for condemning ever so many violations of soundness all across our civilisation promoted by powerful, nihilistic factions; things which, apart from propagandistic indoctrination are as clear as the difference between six and nine sides of a polygon. Observe the list in the OP. KF PS, 2700 years ago, one of Judea's nobility spoke to the problem, which he saw in the decadence of his day:
Isa 5: 20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! 21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight! 22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, and valiant men in mixing strong drink, 23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right! 24 Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will be as rottenness, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
PPS, pretending that corrected fallacies have not been substantially corrected does not make the errors or worse go away. Doubling down on fallacies and shooting at the messenger who has provided correctives only makes it harder to climb down. Indeed, JH, you just set up and knocked over yet another strawman.kairosfocus
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KF: June 11, 2022 at 7:48 am I have very temporarily returned to say that this is the stupidest OP I have ever seen.
I agree. This is just the latest trope that KF has been using to define an argument he disagrees with but can’t provide a sound counter-argument. In the same way that he uses the terms ‘strawman’, ‘red herring’ , ‘rhetorical talking points’, ‘turnabout projection’, ‘speaking in disregard to truth’ and a few others. Whenever I receive one of these, I know I am on the right track.JHolo
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I have very temporarily returned to say that this is the stupidest OP I have ever seen. Hexagon is a clearly and unequivocally well-defined term for a six-sided polygon, and there is nothing mysterious about the non-existence of a nine-sided hexagon. A simple proof by contradiction shows that. All those other words KF mentions are not analogous in the least bit. Stupidity, making up windmills to have something to tilt at. Bye again.Viola Lee
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L&FP, 56: Can we invent or define a nine-sided hexagon? Or, can we soundly say 6 + 3 = 6?kairosfocus
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