Quote:
Originally Posted by SMadsen
Sure, but only if you argue the veracity (or investigate it if that makes for a better word) will your claim be confronted with other claims that infringe upon it. I'm not saying that you will have to deal with the falsehood of your claim - by the nature of the claim, it will most likely never be false to you - but you will have to deal with the falsehood of other claims, even if only to declare your claim true (which is the entire argument, by the way).
|
If a claim is unconfronted,then that does not make it automatically correct. Declaring something true does not make it true.
Quote:
Originally Posted by SMadsen
A claim that Bob Hope was the first president of your nation can surely be an example of a similar imagination but since the first president of your nation did not exist in the imagination only, or, at least, existed in the collective imagination that we call reality, it has to stand in light of reality as well. That's where it'll fail, of course (although your Bob Hope claim can certainly remain as truth in your mind for the rest of your life - that's not a problem).
|
Whether either the claim of Bob Hope or George Washington as the first President of the United States is made,
a priori they both can't be correct. Confronted or not, they both can't be correct.