I too agree.Flannel Jesus wrote: ↑Sat Dec 14, 2024 1:34 pmCouldn't agree more. I oppose literring the english language with some bullshit phrase a person who doesn't even know english well came up with.
However, it's not that it's just "unwanted clutter," no, it's because unless you are one of the one or two members of this forum who have wasted their time trying to memorize what these obscure and proprietary acronyms...
(FS, FSC, FSK, FSER, FSERC, etc.)
...represent, then no one reading VA's posts will have the slightest clue of what he is referring to.
For example, imagine a random person visiting this site yesterday and trying to make sense of the following conversation between Iwannaplato and little V in the thread titled: "Avoiding Circularity in Assessing Objectivity of FSRC" (font resizing mine)...
Are you kidding me?Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sat Dec 14, 2024 10:33 amFSERC is a more nuanced concept of FSK or FSC.Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Sat Dec 14, 2024 9:57 amBut that's not an FSERC. That's individuals deciding something.Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sat Dec 14, 2024 7:57 am
"We" refer to anyone who is of average intelligence, being rational, adopt critical thinking and has some degrees of wisdom.
We can start with all those who are qualified as 'scientists' within the scientific FSK and the like from outside the scientific FSK.
As far as the scientists most of them are realists - I realize this is about the other thread(s) but it is worth noting over and over.
We can ignore the FSER for this purpose and focus on the FSK or FSC.
If you need to include a glossary of terms to accompany your already dubious philosophy, then you are simply making it doubly difficult (and doubly annoying) to get your point across.
And let's take a moment to address VA's other annoying practice of taking up to 2 to 3 post slots with his infamous use of "Notes" or "Notes: KIV," immediately following his OPs,
To me, this is him providing himself with a cheating/dishonest method of making it look like he had already preemptively covered some rebuttal he may encounter later on in the thread.
I mean, what random reader is going to check the "edit date" at the bottom of one of the posts that he retroactively inserts beneath his OP?
For a guy who pretty much worships Kant, VA certainly doesn't seem to have adopted any of Kant's imperatives regarding honesty and truthfulness.
However, I do seem to remember him writing somewhere that he doesn't agree with absolutely everything in Kant's philosophy.
In which case, and based on his dishonest debating methods, I'm guessing that what is expressed in the following blurb from Google's AI Overview is the aspect of Kant's philosophy that VA disagrees with...
_______AI Overview wrote:According to Kant, honesty was considered extremely important, to the point of being a strict moral duty, as he believed lying is always wrong under any circumstances, even if it means potentially causing harm, because it undermines the very foundation of trust and treats others as a means to an end, not as ends in themselves; this is often referred to as his "categorical imperative" on truth-telling.
