@Dagon: Please note that in the example, above, A asserts: “X is an empirical claim and X is true!” I concur with A’s assertion that “”X is an empirical claim”. This is not a matter of normative “social or religious statements”.
Your observation that normative claims are often “framed as truth” is well taken. The use of “truth” to describe both empirical and normative claims is the source of much confusion and facilitates the use of the Fallacy of Equivocation.
I find your advice to “let it go” in this matter, of refuting an evidence-free empirical claim, to be unacceptable and inconsistent with truth-seeking.
@Dagon: Please note that in the example, above, A asserts: “X is an empirical claim and X is true!”
I concur with A’s assertion that “”X is an empirical claim”. This is not a matter of normative “social or religious statements”.
Your observation that normative claims are often “framed as truth” is well taken. The use of “truth” to describe both empirical and normative claims is the source of much confusion and facilitates the use of the Fallacy of Equivocation.
I find your advice to “let it go” in this matter, of refuting an evidence-free empirical claim, to be unacceptable and inconsistent with truth-seeking.