Re:Trump bans EPA employees from giving social media updates
by pasquinelli on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @03:35AM
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i think it's perfectly appropriate to call a true statement vacuous. for instance, a counterfactual conditional is always true; that fact makes the particular truth of a particular counterfactual conditional completely uninteresting, or vacuous. it's true, but in a hollow, empty, vacuous way. what use would there be calling a false statement vacuous?
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Re:Trump bans EPA employees from giving social media updates
by lucajona on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @05:15AM
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Okay sure, I made a bad generalisation. Some true statements can be uninteresting. The point I was trying to make was more that the parent commenter was making a true statement about epistemology that is relevant and useful to the discussion.
Maybe it could have been better elaborated, but I don't think it deserves being down-voted and replies of what seems like moral disgust.