If you want me to answer your questions that you are not asking, then I suggest you ask one of those types of human beings who will do that.
We are on a writing forum. I, again, can only go by the actual words before me. Now, if you want me to answer honestly the questions you put before me, then that is good. I will suggest though if what you are asking is not what you mean, then do not ask Me questions.
‘Could you’ is a question asked if one is curious if another ‘could’ do something or not.
‘Will you’, however, is the most accurate form of requesting if one ‘will’ do something or not.
Some people have not noticed the differences, but others have.
Now, if you do not want to use accurate and correct wording here with me, and you would still like to know the truth, to what you were alluding to, then I suggest asking “atla”, and let us see how it responds and answers you.
Okay. So, you do know now, right?
Also, considering you just expressed, “Ah, same old literalist approach to language”, in regards to the way I write one sentence, it can seem quite funny that you did not notice it and pick up on it earlier on.
In fact, I am surprised that you see my writings as “everyday speech”, especially considering how much and how often I get “pulled up” for the way I write and speak here.
Okay, but some might now be perceiving you to be lying, to being dishonest, or to succumbing to sarcasm again.
Considering we communicate in philosophy forums, where formal logic and formal arguments are used to get points across, communicated, and understood fully, then I would have thought “everyday language” would be better left for all of the multitude of other forums and websites that exist.
Also, you might not have, but you seem to have forgotten, that I am not necessarily here to be understood by you interlocutors here. Once again, I am here to learn how to communicate better. Again, which is not necessarily you at all.
I can use our communications to show and reveal how and why misunderstanding was so common place, and how and why the answers to philosophical questions had still not yet been answered when these writings were made.
Even when the Correct and Right words were being used, some people much prefered to just use what was called, “everyday language”. Laughingly, as though that would work better.
The clue that “that language” does not actually work has been the thousands of years of “that type of language” not really moving people forward for the better.
You don’t have to. The part where you said and wrote,
If you were to conclude that I believe something, despite whatever, reveals that you still believe, absolutely, that I could and would believe something.
Now, you can’t logically partly conclude something. You have either concluded something, or you have not. So, you don’t have to use the ‘absolutely’ word for us to know that if you were to conclude something, then you have done this ‘absolutely’ and not ‘partly’.
Again, you don’t have to use the ‘absolutely’ word to know that what you are or were to do is done absolutely. Just like if you were to become pregnant, then you will do this ‘absolutely’. You obviously cannot be ‘partly’ pregnant, you are either pregnant ‘absolutely’, or you are not at all, the same applies to when you conclude something, then this is done absolutely as well. Either you have concluded something ‘absolutely’, or you have not at all.
Therefore, if you were to conclude [whatever within Me], then you have concluded [this] ‘absolutely’.
LOL Once again, you have shown that you have concluded, ‘absolutely’, something that I have not done and am not doing at all.
What are you on about now?
Is it extremely obvious that human beings use the ‘could you’ to request something. LOL I might even hear this absolutely every day. Yet, here you are believing that “I don’t understand that ‘could you’ is a request in certain situations”.
The number of times you presume or believe something about me, which you are completely and utterly Wrong about, is quite staggering.
The fact that you used the word ‘conclude’ means that you meant ‘absolutely’. Again, just like if you said, “If you were to get ‘pregnant’, means that you meant ‘absolutely’.
No. I added the ‘absolute’ word for the reasons I just provided you with.
LOL You said, ‘conclude’ and not ‘think’.
Also, the fact that you still do not know what I actually mean when I use some words is not helping you at all.
Again, you are ‘now’ using a word that you did not previously.
Once more, you, previously, used the ‘conclude’ word and not the ‘think’ word.
In case you were still yet aware, those two words can mean two very distinctly different things.
Now you have, once again, CHANGED your wording. You were just using the ‘think’ word, but now you used the ‘know’ word.
There is no surprise why it is taking these human beings so, so long to learn, comprehend, and understand.