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Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:32 pm Depends on the supposition or concept and the person in question. There's not just one answer to that.

What's the basis of "depends"?
What's the basis of any basis?

Skepdick wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:33 pm What's the basis of "depends"?

As a concept do you mean?

Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:35 pm As a concept do you mean?

What's the basis of meaning?
What does a basis mean?

Skepdick wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:36 pm

Let's answer questions before moving to the next.

Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:42 pm Let's answer questions before moving to the next.

The answer to your question depends on the answer to mine.

Skepdick wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:43 pm

Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:42 pm Let's answer questions before moving to the next.

The answer to your question depends on the answer to mine.

Which one?

Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:46 pm

Skepdick wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:43 pm

Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:42 pm Let's answer questions before moving to the next.

The answer to your question depends on the answer to mine.

Which one?

All of them.

Skepdick wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:47 pm

Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:46 pm

Skepdick wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:43 pm
The answer to your question depends on the answer to mine.

Which one?

All of them.

You'd need to clarify if you're asking about concepts or what

Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:48 pm

Skepdick wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:47 pm

Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:46 pm

Which one?

All of them.

You'd need to clarify if you're asking about concepts or what

I am asking about the basis. Of anything and everything you do.

If it is meaningful to ask "What is the basis of concepts?" then it is meaningful to ask "What is the basis of your question?"

And it's also meaningful to ask "What is the basis of the basis of your question?"

Skepdick wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:49 pm I am asking about the basis.

I can't answer this unless I know the basis "of what"?

If you ask "what's the basis of meaning" for example, I don't know if you're talking about a term, a concept attached to the term, the ontological phenomenon, etc. And it's especially not clear when you're asking such questions with the term in quotation marks.

Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:50 pm I can't answer this unless I know the basis "of what"?

The basis of ANY basis!

Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:50 pm If you ask "what's the basis of meaning" for example, I don't know if you're talking about a term, a concept attached to the term, the ontological phenomenon, etc.

What's the basis of knowledge?
What's the basis of ontology?
What's the basis of phenomena?

Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:50 pm And it's especially not clear when you're asking such questions with the term in quotation marks.

YES! It's not clear what YOU are asking. It's not clear WHY you are asking anything at all.

That's why I am asking you all these questions.

Skepdick wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:52 pm

Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:50 pm I can't answer this unless I know the basis "of what"?

The basis of ANY basis!

The same thing would go for that. Are you asking about a concept? An ontological phenomenon? What?

Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:56 pm The same thing would go for that. Are you asking about a concept? An ontological phenomenon? What?

All of the above. Since they are all concepts.

What is their basis?

And since a "basis" is a concept, I am asking what the basis for that is also.

Skepdick wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:59 pm All of the above. Since they are all concepts.

Ontological phenomena are not concepts. (Well, or the vast majority of them are not at any rate.)

Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 2:01 pm Ontological phenomena are not concepts.

Everything you are expressing is a concept.

You can't express a non-concept!

The expression "ontological phenomena"... that's a concept.