Comment by knightoffaith

So, I think if saying "the earth is round" is true and saying the earth is round mean different things, then we haven't construed the former properly, the former should be construed as expressing the same thing as the latter. If it's just a linguistic disagreement, then I think we can set that aside, I'm not very interested in that. The original point was that we can intuit certain things as being true, e.g. that sense-data reflects something about reality, and there's no need to appeal to how useful believing this is or isn't. Like, conceivably, nuclear wars could lead to the annihilation of humanity, but I don't see why that should have any bearing on whether atomic bombs exist or not.