A point that cannot be debated?

Question

Is there such a thing as a point that cannot be debated? Most people agree that empirically-verified facts are non-debatable except in terms of clarity of expression (the words used to state the fact can be debated, but not the fact itself). However, is there any point that can be made that leaves absolutely no room for debate, semantic or otherwise?

tira_cyrin88, I'm not going to report you as abusive. But I think that someone could probably debate your post. Do you truly think that things as ambiguous as history and political motivation are "non-debatable"?

Answer 1

There are such things as "first principles" that are self-evident and hence cannot really be "debated" per se. A few examples:

Barking dogs bark.
Bachelors are unmarried.
A triangle has three sides

Such statements are also sometimes called a priori, meaning that they may be known before actually experiencing them. By definition, you know that a barking dog barks, and so on. If you wish to debate if a barking dog does not bark, please feel free, but I do not think that you will get too far.

Someone mentioned math and this too is a possibility.

Answer 2

2+2=4

Answer 3

Here's an easy explanation for why everything can be debated.

You say water is wet, or 2 + 2 = 4. I say no, water is dry, and 2 + 2 = 73.

There. I just debated you. I would lose both of those debates, but that doesn't erase the fact that I debated. I could even come up with some reasons why I think 2 + 2 = 73; they'd be ridiculous, but perhaps to my mind they're valid points. Whose to ultmately judge what points are valid?

Answer 4

No, there is no such thing as an empiridally verified fact. According to Empricism, the mind is a clean sheet of paper, has no innate ideas and truths can not be arrived at through intuition. People only know what they have seen or experienced and draw their truths from what they have seen and experienced.

Since no two people have seen exactly the same thing, there is nothing that can not be non debatable.

Answer 5

Anna Nicole Smith is dead. George Washington is dead, etc. Those types of points - as you say, an emphirical fact - cannot be debated with any degree of rationality. I think the operative word in your question is "point". What may be a "point" for you, isn't received as a point for the receiver. If your question was: Is there any assertion that cannot be debated, the answer is clearly no. Since your question only references a point, there will always be someone who can debate, or not accept, your point, however factually based or commonly accepted. Take laws of physics, for example. Gravity. If you're at the top of a tree and drop an apple, which way will it fall? Down, of course. Who, in their right mind, would debate that?

Answer 6

Even "empirically verified" goes out the window if you want to go David Hume on someone and bring up Skepticism. Or there's philosophical idealism to debate whether or not the desk I'm sitting in front of exists. Wow, that is a VERY good question, I can't imagine at the moment what point could be made that nobody could ever question.

Answer 7

there are points that can not really be debated, i mean some one can try to but sometimes there is no point, and often the only way to debate an issue like that is to change the point a little. For example if i say when a person dies they are dead, that's it end of story. if they are dead there is nothing to really debate...however someone with a more religious aspect might interject by changing the focal point some by saying no that person is not dead the soul lives on.

So it really just depends on the context of whats being debated and the views of those debating

Answer 8

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Answer 9

In the human reproduction system, the female provides the x x chromosomes and the male provides either the x x or the x y, thus the male is the one who decides, biologically, if the child will be male or female. No exceptions.

Answer 10

How ironic. We are now debating whether there is a non-debatable point. I guess this itself is an example that EVERYTHING can be debated XD