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Then it's not a philosophical question so much as about the meaning of "sound". And "debates" about semantics are about as uninteresting as it gets.

• Sebb767 4y ago
  A lot of "philosophical" questions boil down to semantic debates, see the sleeping beauty problem for another one [1]. So we can get into a philosophical (or semantic?) debate about that, for a funny instance of recursion :-) But I agree with that those debates are quite uninteresting, so let's not do that. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Beauty_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Beauty_problem
• mistermann 4y ago
  > And "debates" about semantics are about as uninteresting as it gets. A 'fact' that is relative to the frame of reference of the observer.
  • sidlls 4y ago
    Nah, there’s nothing less interesting and more irritating than bikeshedding of that sort. Nobody cares about some blowhard’s attempt to generate pointless “debate” over hypotheticals and semantics.
    • mistermann 4y ago
      > Nah, there’s nothing less interesting and more irritating than bikeshedding of that sort. When you say "there’s nothing less interesting and more irritating than", are you speaking universally, or of your own personal experience? > Nobody cares about some blowhard’s attempt to generate pointless “debate” over hypotheticals and semantics. How do you people have knowledge of each others thoughts? Serious question.