# Essentialism / what does a universal proposition mean?

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**Created:** [November 26, 2023, 2:08am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/essentialism-what-does-a-universal-proposition-mean/1898 "2023-11-26T02:08:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![lmf](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/user_avatar/discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/lmf/32/1302_2.png) [@lmf](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/lmf)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 2:01am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/essentialism-what-does-a-universal-proposition-mean/1898/35 "2025-01-20T02:01:54Z")

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> [@Elliot](#):
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> You seem to expect me to take your word for whether it generalizes

Yes, indeed. It didn’t even occur to me that you might not (though it should have, because you’ve done this before). I have given you no cause to think I am being dishonest, which would be enough for normal people to accept my account of my inner state.

But I actually don’t think you believe that I am dishonestly reporting my evaluation of you, i.e. reporting it in a way that differs from how I classify it in my own mind. No, the premise behind what you say here, the reason why you want “reasoning and evidence,” is that you—absurdly—think _you_ will understand the inner workings of _my_ mind better than I do, based on the few meagre shreds of evidence that I might throw at you. In short, I think that you are a _psychologizer_.

This is even more reason for me not to have the conversation you’d want to have.

If I am to remain on this forum (and I could go either way at this point), I request that you deal with my _conscious_ mind only, and keep your [pseudoscientific](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/ancient-greeces-negativity-towards-lust/497/3) [fortune-telling](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/career-physics-and-goals-was-artificial-general-intelligence-speculations/473/212) about what’s secretly going on in the depths of my subconscious to yourself.

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