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It's not an answer.Age wrote: ↑Thu Sep 18, 2025 12:02 am But, 'it' is 'an answer'. Infact every words 'means' what 'it' means, 'to you'. Which obviously can be very, very different, 'to another's, and even opposing different. And, this without even mentionp how one word can mean different things at different times to the exact same person.
Yes, you are. I asked what the word means. You said, "It means whatever it means." It's an idiotic non-answer.
Now, let 'us' 'look at' what the actual Truth is, here, exactly.Magnus Anderson wrote: ↑Thu Sep 18, 2025 2:53 amI asked you for the common definition of the word "definition". I got a response with 374 words in it that do not answer the question AT ALL. Just more of your usual mindless blabbering.Age wrote: ↑Thu Sep 18, 2025 12:02 am Well, absolutely obviously, you never asked about the so-called 'common definition', anywhere. So, once again, 'this one', once more' asked for and said some thing that it did not even mean. Therefore, I will, again, reiterate, say and write what you actually mean, and, mean what you actually say and write, and then there will not be so much confusion and misunderstandings, here. And, in regards to asking questions, if you want a particular specific answer, then just ask the actual specific question, which you want a specific answer for.
There is absolutely no use at all if, for example, you ask for the definition of a word when what you actually wanted was a specific type of definition for a word. Again, just ask for exactly what 'it' is that you want, here.
How much simpler and easier could things get, here?
Now, if you are asking about some so-claimed 'common definition', then, like always, that would be relative to 'the observer'. Unless, of course, you have some particular numbers that show and prove, on its own, the 'commonness' of 'a definition'.
Now, 'I' will remind 'this one' that what is so-called 'common' all depends on not just the 'year/s', but also on the 'time', when the question is asked, as well on the culture, and country, and also on the group of people being referenced.
As can be easily sent, here, there are quite a number of differing variables that need to be taken into account, first. That is, if 'this one' really does want the true, and right, answer, here
So, obviously what is 'common' in my point of reference and from my perspective might well not be to you. And, then what are 'we' going to do, exactly? Fight over who's view and who's words are 'right' and who's are not?
In case you have forgotten 'I' have already explained to 'you' what are 'right' words, and which words are not.
Also, and by the way, what does 'commonality' even have to with absolutely any thing, here?
you just spend quite a bit of time 'trying to' defend a belief and claim of yours by using 'definitions' in your own way, which was not the 'usual' or 'common' way, anyway.
So, if 'it' is not 'an answer', then what is 'the answer' to the question, 'What does the word 'definition' mean?Magnus Anderson wrote: ↑Thu Sep 18, 2025 2:56 amIt's not an answer.Age wrote: ↑Thu Sep 18, 2025 12:02 am But, 'it' is 'an answer'. Infact every words 'means' what 'it' means, 'to you'. Which obviously can be very, very different, 'to another's, and even opposing different. And, this without even mentionp how one word can mean different things at different times to the exact same person.
I said, the word, definition, means whatever a speaker/listener/writer/reader, [person], wants 'that word' to mean.Magnus Anderson wrote: ↑Thu Sep 18, 2025 2:58 amYes, you are. I asked what the word means. You said, "It means whatever it means." It's an idiotic non-answer.
'They' were, more or less, 'your own words', in 'your thread' about 'morality is objective' [by "magnus"].Magnus Anderson wrote: ↑Thu Sep 18, 2025 3:05 amThat's a lie you've been pushing forward for a while.
Another falsehood.
Correct, that's what I said. But what you said to me in your earlier post is, "You spend a lot of time trying to defend a belief by using definitions in your own." That isn't true and it does not follow from what I said.
That's what your "It means whatever its speaker wants it to mean" boils down to.
Since you're such a braindead idiot, you're free to describe what meaning you assign to the word "definition". You don't have to bother with common definitions. I can already tell the task is way too difficult for you.
You're arguing against Age, and I like that, but you're not doing it in a good way.promethean75 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 18, 2025 4:00 pm Only if in the utterance no contradiction is yielded. Thus, "this is a really common occurrence here where nothing common happens" is proof that eliminates at least one possible meaning for the word 'common': "What happens here is common." Ergo, 'common' can never mean 'what happens here' and so, in fact, this word can't mean anything you want it to mean.
Here, 'we' have another prime example of just how quickly, simply, and easily 'these human beings' got completely lost, confused, and so, so off track.Magnus Anderson wrote: ↑Thu Sep 18, 2025 3:26 pmThat's what your "It means whatever its speaker wants it to mean" boils down to.
LOL It is 'you' who, when done, then decided to claim that you wanted not just what the 'definition' word means, but 'now' what the 'common definition' means.Magnus Anderson wrote: ↑Thu Sep 18, 2025 3:26 pm Stop prendeing you answered the question.
Since you're such a braindead idiot, you're free to describe what meaning you assign to the word "definition".
LOL Just 'look at' how much 'this one' 'tries' its hardest to fool and deceive 'you', readers, here.Magnus Anderson wrote: ↑Thu Sep 18, 2025 3:26 pm You don't have to bother with common definitions. I can already tell the task is way too difficult for you.
Just because absolutely no agreed with and accepted your own premises and conclusions does not mean that 'I' nor 'anyone else' misunderstood 'any thing', let alone 'pretty much every thing' in 'your thread'.Magnus Anderson wrote: ↑Thu Sep 18, 2025 3:17 pmAnother falsehood.
You pretty much misunderstood everything I wrote in that thread.
Great. Thank you for now admitting 'this'. When 'I', more or less, just copied what 'you have previously claimed', you then claimed that 'I' was not answering 'your question'. However, you are 'now' admitting, although because of your inability to read and see clearly you may not be understanding, that I actually did answer 'your question', before.
If 'this' is what you want to believe is absolutely true, then okay.Magnus Anderson wrote: ↑Thu Sep 18, 2025 3:17 pm But what you said to me in your earlier post is, "You spend a lot of time trying to defend a belief by using definitions in your own." That isn't true and it does not follow from what I said.
And, just like the word 'common' means whatever 'a speaker' wants that word to mean, so to what the word 'definition' means, is whatever 'a speaker/listener/writer/reader wants 'that word' to mean.Magnus Anderson wrote: ↑Thu Sep 18, 2025 3:26 pm And by the way, the word "common" means whatever its speaker wants it to mean.
There you go. Now answer my question.