is there absolute, objective, truth?

[john doran]

Originally Posted by dbg

The rest of your post, while admirable and interesting in its subject matter, is lost to this initial error of yours.

incidentally, your point about "maybe p" still fails to avoid the ambit of my claim, which is that the global skeptical position cannot be stated consistently.

if you're not saying anything that is true or false, then you're not stating a position on an issue; a fortiori you're not stating a position on gobal skepticism.

[dbg]

Originally Posted by john doran

incidentally, your point about "maybe p" still fails to avoid the ambit of my claim, which is that the global skeptical position cannot be stated consistently.

if you're not saying anything that is true or false, then you're not stating a position on an issue; a fortiori you're not stating a position on gobal skepticism.

I agree that one cannot make any assertions without implying that some things are "true." But one can be in an internal state of doubting everything including doubting whether or not he doubts everything and not make an assertion or when uttering something that would in a normal person's case be an assertion, be a mere conversational exercise in convenience (an engaging in a kind of mere formalism).

In case I wasn't clear, I do not doubt everything. I do not doubt for instance that I am experiencing certain "qualia" in this present moment.