TRUTH PROPOSITION If you cannot eliminate the verb to-be from a statement or que

TRUTH PROPOSITION

If you cannot eliminate the verb to-be from a statement or question you are not engaging in philosophy but deception – a victorian parlor game for the educated but unintelligent.

If you cannot make a moral argument using the costs to each party that are involved, you are not engaging in philosophy but deception – an ancient means of political fraud.

If you cannot state the meaning you wish to attribute to a term in the context of problem solving, and instead seek to discover its normative ‘meaning’ you are simply seeking confirmation bias – self and other deception.

If you cannot define truth as you intend it yet make a truth claim you are engaged in self and other deception.