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Mikkel

['Member']Joined: September 20, 2017 at 06:55Last active: March 29, 2018 at 07:17None discussions20 comments

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Here what I can do: Suppose that we start with the assumption that there is no knowledge out there in the objective reality. Then I construct evidence...
September 22, 2017 at 16:40
You don't get that you are doing a case of begging the question- ( -when you assign the odds. Now I don't do metaphysics and epistemology as knowledge...
September 22, 2017 at 13:19
Now I see a tree. That is non-inferential, I will accept that for now. But what that have to do with the objective reality? What do you mean by object...
September 22, 2017 at 05:09
How can something be not real? If you have a hallucination, then is that a not real or unreal hallucination or is it real? What is real and how do you...
September 21, 2017 at 20:31
How do you explain a hallucination? I once lived at the coast and could look out on a bay. Once day I saw an island, which I hadn't seen before and ne...
September 21, 2017 at 19:43
It is incorrect, because I believe despite evidence that you are something even if I wasn't around. Of course, I believe I will die one day. Now you t...
September 21, 2017 at 19:14
How do you know that it is something and not an illusion? You take for granted that there is a screen in for of you. How do you know that there is? Ho...
September 21, 2017 at 18:33
That you are perceiving them! How do you know that?
September 21, 2017 at 18:14
How do you know that? Well, because you told me so, which makes it a dogmatic claim. You don't get Agrippa's Trilemma, because you keep claiming that ...
September 21, 2017 at 17:56
I don't know ;) how to get this across. It is pointless to point out that my argument about knowledge fails, if all arguments about knowledge fail. In...
September 21, 2017 at 17:31
For which you run into Agrippa's Trilemma, because now you have to make a reasoned argument as how you know that. Or you simply declare dogmatically t...
September 21, 2017 at 16:47
That is a variant of a dogmatic claim. There is a screen in front of me, because that is how it is and it is not worth questioning and anyway it is ab...
September 21, 2017 at 16:25
Agrippa's Trilemma is a variant of skepticism about knowledge. It can be explained in the following manner: When you claim something, you ask yourself...
September 21, 2017 at 16:05
You in this thread dismiss an argument, because it is incoherent, That is fair and well, but it misses the following possibility: That all claims with...
September 21, 2017 at 15:25
You claim by extension of your demands for logic and e.g. coherence in regards to knowledge, that knowledge is possible with logic and e.g. coherence,...
September 21, 2017 at 14:36
If all your experiences are illusory, are they then real and how the world works?
September 21, 2017 at 13:01
Yes, that is the point for all aposteriori premises including your version, that we can trust our experiences. They are all begging the question and s...
September 21, 2017 at 12:58
The problem is in a sense that our reasoning and beliefs are the same for a common sense universe and the two other possibilities. In other words we h...
September 21, 2017 at 09:59
You take for granted that we can know about the world. I don't, because I haven't been able to find any knowledge about the world, which isn't either ...
September 20, 2017 at 11:25
[ I don't know if this has been brought up, but anyway here it goes. What causes you to have experiences? What can you control? These are the 2 key qu...
September 20, 2017 at 08:03