That´s ok. What I take issue with is when you losen your belt at my expense; i.e. I am making a statement, and without even addressing the statement, you immediately take one of the keyterms, use it in a different definition and have changed the topic.You should check out analytic philosophy. I'm personally torn with this style of communicating, because this a debate board, so I should be extra careful with my terms, but that takes work and this is a recreational board, so I'm able to loosen my belt a little.
I think I would be more open to follow you on your tangents (which actually are completely immaterial for my point - other than having a word in common, albeit in totally different definitions), if you´d first respond to the actual statement (just so I get some feedback).
Yeah, if you give an example that merely begs the question...Two people create a game, and the rules that go with this game. Are they authorities, or are just the rules themselves the authority? I think our problem is a difference in perspective.
Of course, the two uses of "authority" here still point to two entirely different definitions; and since in my initial statement I used "authority" exactly to distinguish an authoritative creator entity from an in itself convincing "game" that everyone plays naturally, your equivocation simply serves to ignore my point (not that I am assuming that that´s your intention, though).
Yes, again: It would be easier for me to get off talking about stuff that I didn´t talk about, if first I would at least get a feedback telling me that what I was talking about has been understood and taken into consideration (not necessarily agreed with, though).I meant "might be needed" in the sense of, "if God is needed for morality, rather than God not existing and/or evolution totally explaining morality," not directly with what we're talking about.
Received: All this is completely irrelevant and immaterial for what I was talking about, in the first place. That´s the very problem I am trying to tell you about.And I'll take it as an unsubstantiated premise, because we don't need to go into the details of this idea in order for us to consider contingencies with the argument we're talking about now, do we?
Doesn´t mean that the topic you have immediately changed it into by means of creative equivocation isn´t interesting, too, and that we can´t talk about it later. But I am frustrated with responses that simply ignore my point.
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