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Sure, I agree with that. Surely you've noticed these aren't things I attend to :D I do in fact think of the implausible and controversial. Yeh, a bit ...

"This sentence is false" seems to fit to me, but I'm not allowed to use it. :D In a straightforward way if the LNC and LEM holds then there is nothing...

Well, yeah. It's right there! For sure. I find philosophy pleasurable, so even supposing the skeptic is correct I'm not a Pyrrhonic skeptic. For me I ...

"2+2=5" is false. There's a sense in which we have to know things about "2" and "+" and "5" and "=" and "...is false" So it seem easy to assert, witho...

How is it you understand the truth without falsity, though? What's this part where you're not thinking about the false, but instead -- prior to falsit...

Do you see how it's correct for the critic to still say that they don't know? That's what I was hoping the example to demonstrate -- they don't have t...

I actually wonder if that'd qualify... I'm not sure. I was more thinking insofar that we weaken our requirements for knowledge so that the skeptical p...

Why not? Suppose a person who is skeptical about some things existing and not skeptical about other things existing -- so not the Cartesian scenario, ...

That's not true. Suppose you hire someone to build you a house. You don't know how to build the house, but your criticism is important to how the buil...

Haha. That's what I'm trying to avoid -- it's worthwhile to note that there are definitely aesethetic differences. And something about Plato is that h...

Oh if you're fine with it I am. I mostly didn't want to distract from your main point but if you think it's on topic then it's on topic -- it's your O...

Well, categorically speaking, myth-making is part of philosophy though, right? I'd say there'd have to be some kind of "reasonable", whatever that amo...

I think it really could be the case that some questions' correct answer is "I don't know"; why does one need a guess to say "I don't know"? I'd say th...

I'd make the case that the builders need the critics -- else you get backbad arguments.

Yeah, it's messy in-fact. Just presuming some hedonic calculus, and supposing a belief that is false did not harm anyone then that calculus, unless fo...

I'm intrigued. I spend a lot of time thinking about how to think about these sorts of things -- meaningful beliefs that are false, sometimes to the po...

OK, now I'm guessing "she" is Oizys @"Bob Ross"

I can't give this constructive feedback because it was, and is perfect to me -- both/and, the past and the present and the future and the pluperfect a...

Wondering who "she" is throughout the essay I kept feeling compelled to want to read, which is an interesting choice. I got the sense that "she" is ph...

Why limit ourselves to a scheme of four possible ways to philosophize? :D It's how I see things. Close to: It is a pleasure unto itself, and this is e...

Alright. Sorry for the delay, work called -- but now the big reveal! Wittgenstein's Hinges and Gödel's Unprovable Statements @"Sam26" Bubbles and Styx...

Now that you've been revealed -- I'll say yours is one of the ones I'm struggling with to come up with a relevant reply. Excellent stuff.

I appreciated your essay so much because it was more than I expected -- it's a strong thesis that explains itself and causes reflection in me. I suppo...

(if mostly the good guys, yes) ;)

It's there. I PM'ed him to point out which one so that I didn't give hints.

Responded by PM to keep hints minimal

Yup, that's the one.

Heh, alright. Glad to hear it. It was mostly for you that I spoke up so much. I'm just trying to help people understand -- I don't care what they do a...

Back on track -- sorry for the divergence. Your points have been excellent. Yeh, it's not an entire fabrication -- but you know how you grow up with "...

Same to you, as always. :heart:

Maybe not. I think Hume is right with respect to the causal relation -- we think that there's a necessary relationship between events but there's not ...

I was thinking of know-how mainly, but yes I know he's fine with inference that's informal. The part where I think what I've said about essence matter...

That would solve it, you're right. But I'd rather just say I don't know when I don't know: the retort is "What if there is some third thing we missed?...

I had been following that discussion up to https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/992579 Sorry, missed this. I think we'd like such a thing...

I don't recognize that at all. I would rather make the inference that if empiricism is the only option and induction is impossible then knowledge must...

Yeah. I think it's fair to call him a rationalist, though a non-cognitivist -- most people don't worry about the problem of induction because they don...

I have sympathies, but just like I do with any other philosopher -- there's a with the grain and against the grain, and I think Kant's categories fall...

I'm a time-travelling AI bot -- you'll see my account comes from before ChatGPT, but the AI of the future discovered time travelling before humans did...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/goldman-1869-1940/

Is Emma Goldman not a real world example?

I mean, fair enough. I'm going to base any sort of analysis based on two things: a political philosophy, and what the political actors have done. So h...

Eh, it's more that I think that your notion of how to look at political philosophies is flawed -- theory is important, but relying upon the meanings o...

:rofl: Well, it might be your problem, but for my part I'm calling the anarchists anarchists, rather than "confused about what they are saying because...

Then I will be in error from now until forever -- what are we to call the people who call themselves anarchists and organize anarchically and advocate...

There's a clear distinction that George Dickie describes which might help you as you go forward, though won't answer these questions. He notes how the...

I like both. As you note: Part of the joke I've been enjoying is that all I've been doing to Aristotle is Aristotle's method to Aristotle -- noting ho...

Not the first time for me. Though I'd pay heed to: It makes sense to not jump to a conclusion based on a story we hear, especially if we have expertis...

I feel terrified by it all -- they're targeting anyone they feel they can get away with, and given human nature I'm pretty sure that's not exactly goi...

Now mayhaps it's inevitable, but give how little attention is paid to aesthetics on the fora I thought it worth noting that the OP was asking after th...

Man, I just listed a couple of examples to show that there's stuff out there to research -- that question you posed is a good question, but also huge ...