This truth is seldom taken seriously, because one says with an air of supercilious knowing: for ordinary people it never mattered.
This is obviously false, just spend one week reading high law court decisions. The general opinion of human beings on all matters under the sun is in a flux and determines all events on the earth, wars, revolutions, changes of laws and systems of governance. Not to mention revolutions in technology.
However, this is an imaginative stretching of the known unknowns into an formal category.
One must measure it against such a question as: What is the practical? For example, if culpability for crime is meaningless, since there is no agent of the causation, one changes one’s view concerning incarceration and punishment.
It’s you who wrote “they are in fact true”. One must ask, what does fact mean here? Do you notice that if one called all things facts, it would mean all experience of all humans were a kind of scientific result. However, don’t we call those opinions?
No because when one says apple tree, one means something one can come across. And this is true also of the genus, since we do think apple tree as a class or kind of thing. That is something one encounters. Both in the sense that any apple tree is externally a case of the kind of thing one calls an apple tree, and it is also the concept as a mental clarification. These words nominate or title what happens. So “The words don’t lead us to anything other than more words.” is inadmissible, since it is false by the standard of describing what happens accurately.
So far as the “ought” judgment is thought casually, as causing the view in the judge who bans the book, it is a cause like the making of the book by the master printer. However, this whole region of causation is meaningless. Though, the human being lives in this idea.
This seems derivative on the idea of causality. This “going to be” thinking implies the teleology of the idea of time. It evades what is!
The word able would be meaningless (ruled out a priori). The whole sentence would be meaningless. Because you derive the “must be” of your necessity from the freedom of the human. As a removal. We think we are free, we continue to in the idea of necessity. You’re not up to confronting the whirlpool of anti-logic in supposing yourself to be saying something here.
This is fanciful nonsense posing as common sense in the style of persons who claim fake flowers are more practical than living ones, for they need less care. Words name what happens. One writes things as a means of getting to what is.
If you refuse to respect the necessity of definitions, which make visible what is being said for all, you are not worth speaking to. One can explain nothing to fools.
Not sure how this answers the question of what rationality means.
This is comical and ridiculous, as is your obvious insincerity.