Mate, you grossly overcomplicate simple truths.
Firstly, truth/lie is a human created morality. Deception is not. Credibility, as I said, is another human fabricated idea to support the moral concept of truth. Yes, there always will be fabrication. The electronic impulses in you brain render, or fabricate, images with no sensory input. We call this "imagination", which chemically has no difference to our brain as "credibility" or "morality". In other words, credibility, in its core, is fabricate by human conscience.
You quote and cite the dictionary, which is know to be completely a human fabrication.
You make it very clear that credibility is based upon, essentially what the majority agrees upon. You know another couple of words that could fall under the same lines? Trend, popular, and style. All are similar fabrications of the humanity.
Yes, all fabrications. You intelligently wrote a rebuttal that was, admittedly, more complete than mine.
Unfortunately it just ended up agreeing with me.
EDIT: Making fun of my swype-typo... Its too easy. "Swypos" I will call them!
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I don't agree with you in any respect and neither did my post. Your definition of the human race might as well be "We make stuff up, so why does any of it matter?".
It is a shame you are trying to define us in a way that makes our experiences in life pointless. I am not pointless. My perception of the world is not pointless.
I was once asked "Prove you exist". My answer was very quick and to the point.
Yesterday I perceived the sun rising. My wife shared that perception. My friends also perceived it. This perception has now reached the level of a group consensus and was deemed a fact. I relayed this perception to other people. They perceived my perception as credible because they perceived the same event at the same time I did. We now have a confirmed fact by members outside my group. Those people continued to share this perception and in that sharing discovered many others had the same perception. Six billion people shared that perception yesterday. It was a fact beyond dispute. My credibility was confirmed by the entire human race. I exist.
You can try to defend your position all you want by using the word fabrication. But here is something you have not considered and where you argument implodes on itself. The word fabrication and its definition is a FACT. You have used this word in a CREDIBLE manner albeit in a very poor argument. No one will dispute this perception.
The reality is, you have shown your point as unsustainable. You can't use the English language to defend yourself when the very fact that everyone's perception of the words used are the same and we all consider dictionaries as credible.
Actually, your arguing with me that 6 billion people either saw the sun rise or confirm you exist is a rather ridiculous notion.
Aside, when did I say that nothing matters/has meaning because everything is all seen the way it is due to a culmination of subjective associations? Quite the contrary. I believe that is why things are so beautiful. All because you and I interpret sensory and non-sensory input differently.
I am of the belief that accepting so-called "fact" because the majority agrees upon it is stupidity at its worst. If we all stayed with what everyone agreed was fact, the Earth would still be the center of the universe and be flat.
Yes, dictionaries are considered to be credible, but why? A group consensus agreed this is what the vast majority of the world agreed those words meant. Fair enough, but why should we choose to be limited by what others decide? So maybe I want to use the word fabrication to refer to truth? Am I not "allowed" because Webster is more "credible" than I? I think Shakespeare would agree with me there.
You perceive my argument to be about what a word means or doesn't mean. What human existence means or doesn't mean. Actually my argument, from the beginning, has been than you should not limit your thought to what you logically ascertain as truth from the consensus.
Credibility, in my perception, is yet another thing which limits the vastness of human thought. Why do you have to be credible to exist? You will still invariably exist, regardless of credibility, fabrication, or dictionaries. Why do you need confirmation from anyone else that your perception is credible?
Argue all you want about you being right and me being wrong, and I will simply look at you and say, why does one have to be right or wrong? Why can my perception not differ from yours?
But to keep the debate rolling, because I am rather enjoying this...Regardless of you arguing about credibility existing and me arguing that credibility limits you, you will likely come back with a rebuttal to discredit my statement. But here is the real question: how do you prove to me that I am not credible if I do not believe in credibility?