So we agree it’s not a conversation halter unless one person won’t proceed past, ‘my assumptions are self-evident!’.
I think you’re missing the other kind of conversation halter here: the person might not even claim their assumptions are self-evident, but simply say that they’re axioms and not subject to further analysis. This is the conversation halter RobinZ has been describing.
I think you’re missing the other kind of conversation halter here: the person might not even claim their assumptions are self-evident, but simply say that they’re axioms and not subject to further analysis. This is the conversation halter RobinZ has been describing.