BusyTarpDuster2017 said:
90sBear said:
But you didn't say "If p, then p" did you? You asked a conditional question and attached a variable condition ("hypothetical").
If you would have asked "Is the statement 'if p then p' absolutely true?" then I would have said yes.
That would be the equivalent of asking "Does 1.0 = 1.0?"
But you didn't ask that question.
Omg, wow. Just, wow.
If p, then p.
Let p="a hypothetical scenario contains 'x'"
For you, it can be absolutely true that p = "a hypothetical scenario containing 'x'". JXL even pointed out how changing your original question just a little bit created this exact situation. You are in complete control over what your personal hypothetical scenarios contain. Therefore if p, then p.
"What is true for me is true for me" and "What is true for you is true for you" are both tautologies. I could be wrong, but somehow I don't think that's exactly what you were going for given where this conversation started in the previous thread.
Things change when you ask someone else to engage in a conversation with you containing a hypothetical scenario.
William: "Let's say I transition from being a man to a woman and then..."
Riley: "I don't accept that it is possible to transition from being a man to a woman."
William: "But that's the scenario."
Riley: "But I don't have to agree that is possible and it affects other things in your scenario."
In order to have the conversation about whatever else happened in William's hypothetical scenario, William and Riley would need to have a consensus (agree) that it is possible to transition from being a man to a woman. Riley does not accept that is true. Everything potentially discussed between William and Riley about the hypothetical scenario is not Absolute Truth because it is dependent upon Riley choosing to be in consensus with William's truth at the starting point of the conversation.
William's p = William hypothetically transitions to a woman and then other stuff happens. This is William's truth.
Riley's p = William hypothetically takes a few hormones and grows his hair out but still has male parts and XY chromosomes and then other stuff happens. This is Riley's truth.
William's p does not = Riley's p (in more ways than one)
So if your whole point in all of this was to argue that, "What is true for me is true for me", OK. I agree with you that is a tautology.
But your question doesn't specify if the hypothetical scenario is an individual's imagination or if it is a conversation about a hypothetical scenario between multiple people where it is dependent upon consensus among everyone what variables the scenario contains before they can proceed with the conversation.
Therefore I said that the answer to your original question is not Absolute Truth.