If I want to claim that x is objectively true, I say "x" or "I think x" or "I believe x".
If I want to claim that x may or may not be objectively true, but that it is a useful metaphor for me or that I have an internal experience in which it seems that way to me, I say "x is a useful metaphor for me" or "I have an internal experience in which it seems x".
In my view, making the first sort of statement when you really mean the second is just dishonest.
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Date: 2006-03-29 09:22 pm (UTC)If I want to claim that x is objectively true, I say "x" or "I think x" or "I believe x".
If I want to claim that x may or may not be objectively true, but that it is a useful metaphor for me or that I have an internal experience in which it seems that way to me, I say "x is a useful metaphor for me" or "I have an internal experience in which it seems x".
In my view, making the first sort of statement when you really mean the second is just dishonest.