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Yes, i You need to read that post again. You just agreed with him, while saying it shows all these confusions on his part.

It is intended as deduction. It's not, I was thinking and hey, look I was also existing. Then I tracked many instance of thinking and existing was hap...

Agreed. Which is close to the reason I think the T is superfluous and misleading. To me it works to add in 4 further letters and take out the T. (this...

Sure, knowledge is a rigorously arrived at belief in JTB theories of truth.

Right. Notice you wrote this all in the present tense. I know you have a more nuanced understanding of this. But I just want to immediately mention th...

Yes, I understand that. But I am talking about our in situ situation. Perhaps what we consider we know now may turn out not to be the case. My suggest...

I'm down with the first part, but I'm not sure what you mean by the second part. And, of course, things that get falsified might end up later being re...

Then can one know whether one knows things, given potential revision. We have our rigorous criteria, decide we know X. But later we may realize errors...

The former is a subset of the latter. Different people/groups have different reasons for saying this batch of beliefs over here, they've got promise o...

I think better would be: not demonstrated false - by some well justified argument. JNFB

It also can't get noticed that some things we consider - pretty much regardless of group - that we know now, we later realize we were wrong about, and...

This is a bit like saying Magnus Carlsen's chess games are chess games. Well, yes. But ithey are rigorously arrived at games, showing great skill. Che...

I thought I'd revisit this and made a list off the top of my head of terms that have to do with reasoning. Processes/functions that need to work well ...

After a week of mulling I decided I was time travelling. Which makes sense since it was a week later. Or as I put it to myself 'therefore I am a time ...

So, then: can one be bad at reason and be willing to see contradictions. I would say yes. Unless we take 'bad at reasoning' to mean one never draws co...

I searched his posts for something else and found him saying he was Korean. So, I did a bit of research to see if 'therefore' might cause problems for...

Yes, exactly. Yes, it can be used in other ways, but here it is not first part of sentence comes earlier in time ontologically than what is mentioned ...

I gather that he is making mistakes in symbolic logic also, but that's not something I'm as familiar with. I just found this so galling... I mean, thi...

To backseat drive a bit: I think a key area is the 'you don't know how to apply logic to specific cases and I do.' My wording, perhaps unfair, of some...

Yes, why do the epiphenomenologists talk about consciousness? Because they noticed they had subjective experience. They mulled this over and they star...

I can see someone arguing that we would, like robots, do the same things. We just have this internal witness. But the problem for me is, we sure talk ...

The word “therefore” can be a source of confusion, especially when translating philosophical or logical statements. Causal Interpretation: In English,...

My hypothesis is that it's a language issue. Somewhere back in time he or she mentioned he or she was not a native speaker. I tried reading Philosophy...

I avoided parts of this thread to prevent that.

To be fair, 'therefore' is a tricky word with a few different uses. And both the English and French versions of the cogito are very concise: the Frenc...

I think I communicated poorly. Sometimes when I'm being ironic or start ironic I end up saying things I do not intend.Yes. Instead of saying Hey, that...

Oh, well, in the cogito they all think it means 'so I can conclude' or 'so it must be the case that'. And why, well, the idea is that because if you a...

I've been thinking about the issue, or, at least, there's seems to be thinking occuring, but I don't exist, so I've decided not to participate any mor...

Therefore can imply chronology, but it need not and it certainly doesn't there. And it is often used in the sense Descartes meant, and all those who f...

Let me repeat again that I disagree with the cogito, but I think there is something you are misinterpreting about it. I think you are treating sentenc...

Given what you are saying here, it sounds like you are saying something different from what Corvus was saying earlier. He was using logic and what get...

One way to look at the issue, is that, really. we all have this issue. We are all stupid/stuck in certain areas. It could be reasoning about people, o...

I do get the idea. Any feedback (from others, from life) can be ignored, given the problem. And any attempts to fix the problem can be bad attempts......

If they are an armchair philosopher, rarerly interacting irl with other philosophy hobbiests, that there's little blowback from abstract arguments,eve...

That's fine, but then both sides of the use of denying the antecedent here are arguing using symbolic logic. If we need to look at the individual case...

OK, I was under the impression you were arguing with only the general rule. IOW using a general rule that shows the cogito is false. I don't think it'...

I robbed a bank, therefore I committed a crime. I did not rob a bank, therefore I did not commit a crime argues the man accused of rape after the vide...

But no one thought the people called dykes or fags were homosexuals. My point wasn't that being transgendered was ok and showing it through terms that...

I hoped I got that idea across also, but in any case, I agree. I don't think of them as the core of the elite and I am not sure how organized the elit...

I'd say, looking at the current situation, the idea that there are elites who are getting more and more power and undermining democracy is correct. Th...

I know what the one's called 'dyke' went through. I know what the guys called fag went through. Remember these names are not meant just for the target...

There seems a strong urge to define me (along with everyone else) and oversimplify me (and everyone else) on both sides. Instead of having to learn vi...

I'd still quibble over the language. I'd say now she knows how she's going to be judged there. And she doesn't really have a way to not be her, at lea...

I think I agree with this. It makes me think of how people who have very rigid ideas about what a boy then man should be like and what a girl then wom...

So, if it is not intentional then it's not transgendered? Do we mean intentionally deciding to cross gender traits or intentional in any way? And, not...

No, but I think that would protect some children from thinking they have to make a choice that involves hormones and surgery, for example. I think it ...

It's no one's fault.What faith is that?Oh, I think I can demonstrate it to you not just those people. I suppose it might be fun, but generally pretty ...

That, then, would be everyone, given that different cultures and individuals have different criteria and also given that pretty much everyone will hav...

I don't understand what that means. I am talking about situations where something happens to us or we experience something or do something, and it is ...

OK, I was just going by your earlier wording. Sure, for people who do not have the belief they would likely need strong support for the assertion. And...