(May 23, 2025 at 12:24 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Context shades meaning. Stripping a statement of its context is a fine way of undermining its meaning. It's obvious that's our aim here.
Yeah, that's the problem. The context shades the meaning. So if you load the context with premises I don't agree with, like that it's all magic, then I have to ignore those conditionals if I'm going to answer at all.