You now know that not everyone thinks minds emerge from brains, so you have no reason to make the claim again. — flannel jesus
And I suppose you're defining "reasonable" as "people who agree with me", which makes it tautologically true, not meaningfully true. — flannel jesus
But you bring out some minority folks — Corvus
It's not some tiny minority. Only 51-52% of professional philosophers are physicalists about the mind. That means up to 48% of philosophers might not think the mind emerges from the brain.
It's not senseless, 52% isn't "everyone" by any reasonable definition. — flannel jesus
And you have something better that you're basing the "everyone" claim on? What better information than statistics is that? — flannel jesus
Well it is your problem not understanding ordinary linguistic expressions. — Corvus
"Everyone knows X" - I disagree with this claim.
X and Everyone knows X are not the same claim. I can agree with one and disagree with the other. — flannel jesus
I understand it perfectly well, it's just untrue. — flannel jesus
Don't admit you're wrong then, just don't say it again because you know it's untrue. — flannel jesus
I don't think thats the case. There's no ordinary definition of 'everyone' for which it's true. — flannel jesus
You don't believe it. You know it to be false. You're just being dishonest. — flannel jesus
What ordinary definition of 'everyone' is it true for? — flannel jesus
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