Seriously though, you have a bad habit of taking my rejection of one extreme (that all grammatically correct statements should be assumed meaningful) and interpreting that as the opposite extreme.
Cute or not, it is simply the logical consequence of what you said, which is that you will consider all statements meaningless unless you can argue otherwise.
In reality, you should consider all statements meaningful unless you have a good argument that they are not, and you have provided no such argument for any statement.
it is simply the logical consequence of what you said, which is that you will consider all statements meaningless unless you can argue otherwise.
I don’t really know why you derive from this that all statements are meaningless. Maybe we disagree about what “meaningless” means? Wikipedia nicely explains that “A meaningless statement posits nothing of substance with which one could agree or disagree”. It’s easy for me to see that “undetectable purple unicorns exist” is a meaningless statement, and yet I have no problems with “it’s raining outside”.
How do you argue why “undetectable purple unicorns exist” is a meaningless statement? Maybe you think that it isn’t, and that we should debate whether they really exist?
That’s cute.
Seriously though, you have a bad habit of taking my rejection of one extreme (that all grammatically correct statements should be assumed meaningful) and interpreting that as the opposite extreme.
Cute or not, it is simply the logical consequence of what you said, which is that you will consider all statements meaningless unless you can argue otherwise.
In reality, you should consider all statements meaningful unless you have a good argument that they are not, and you have provided no such argument for any statement.
I don’t really know why you derive from this that all statements are meaningless. Maybe we disagree about what “meaningless” means? Wikipedia nicely explains that “A meaningless statement posits nothing of substance with which one could agree or disagree”. It’s easy for me to see that “undetectable purple unicorns exist” is a meaningless statement, and yet I have no problems with “it’s raining outside”.
How do you argue why “undetectable purple unicorns exist” is a meaningless statement? Maybe you think that it isn’t, and that we should debate whether they really exist?