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by portaouflop 532 days ago
The question if there is such a thing as “truth” (an universally true statement) is probably the hardest philosophical problem in humanities history- of course that is not what we were discussing and for that reason your argument here is also in bad faith
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I don't see why the nature of truth is relevant here, unless you are claiming that we can't make deductive arguments about anything ever (I never used the word "truth" in my comment anyway). Also, constant accusations of "bad faith", i.e. dishonesty, are poor debate etiquette and just give the impression that you have no point to make on the object level.
My point was that when one talks about examples of hand-made, artisan tools __microchips__ are not a good example for a handcrafted tool.

I don’t get why that is so controversial. Microchips are definitely not what I have in mind when I talk about a “tool” at all.

You say that this is a good enough example to completely refute the OPs point which I disagree with.