Firstly, this world and this life we're living are such that we can't discern whether we're actual human beings or brains in vats. Call the experience...
I have a feeling this is not the nothing that creatio ex nihilo or ex nihilo nihil fit is referring to. What is something, here being contrasted with ...
It's entirely possible that the ability to doubt exists for no rhyme or reason but the way it has persisted in us must mean that it's useful in some w...
As I understand it, PB states that there are only two (bivalence) truth values viz. true and false and the LEM states that (p v ~p) which simply means...
What is nothing then? Even so, something would be impossible without nothing. Think of it...without nothing in which something can be placed, there wo...
Yes, but suppose the world appears as it really is. Is there cause for doubt? In the transition from stranger to acquaintance to good friend a concomi...
That's one of the things that should keep us up at night. Skepticism is, quite literally, as essential as the air we breathe but then once reason step...
These other "methods" you mention still leave room for doubt, quite unlike the clout reason has in matters doubtful. Once reason settles a matter, the...
I know your views on such issues from your previous posts - don't have a name for it though. Anti-reductionism is how I would characterize your positi...
Thanks for the link :up: How do you suppose doubt began? To me, it's as basic to the mind as the cough reflex is to the body - it's part of our defens...
Going out on a limb here but I think the OP isn't about invidivual freedom vs state control as much as it's about exposing the cognitive dissonance lu...
The mind could be the brain so no issue there with physicalism. However, thoughts are evidently very different to brains - we can't touch them, we can...
@"apokrisis"@"Pantagruel" What about the contradiction if one opts for skepticism? 1. If I know The Problem Of The Criterion then I know I can know no...
Please understand the following 1. Given a scientific theory T, a prediction is made, say P. In other words : If T then P = T -> P 2. Observing P is c...
Well, that's true about particular individuals but surely you won't deny that knowing The Problem Of The Criterion involves, in terms of justified tru...
You mean to say that Carl Linnaeus knew, beforehand, what mammals/birds/reptiles/amphibians are? But the characteristic defining qualities (the criter...
Sincerest apologies but there really isn't anything you can say against contraposition or modus tollens in re its application in the scientific method...
@"Mww"@"Pantagruel"@"apokrisis"@"Outlander" For your kind consideration: The father of taxonomy Carl Linnaeus may have something to offer by way of a ...
1. What is the criterion of knowledge/truth you/we are using here? 2. Does The Problem Of The Criterion make sense to you? Let me have a go... Setting...
Self-validation. Ok. I can go with that but what I want to know is does The Problem Of The Criterion make sense to you? It can only make sense to you ...
This is what's intriguing because in math there's complete freedom - there is no necessity except that of logic - and we may begin with axioms that co...
It's possible that I've misunderstood. I'm interested in knowing where exactly I or others could've misconstrued Chisholm? Which parts of the above qu...
Well, I'm only guessing here but if you must talk about animals, notice that what they know we can know in terms of propositions e.g. wildebeest know ...
@"apokrisis"@"Pantagruel" First things first. The three of us are operating under some criterion of knowledge/truth and I daresay it is exactly the sa...
The Problem Of The Criterion does the exact opposite I'm afraid - show you that it's impossible to know. That's where things get a little hairy - for ...
That's not what I said. There was, had to be, a criterion. How else would you know a proposition is true/false? We just didn't make that explicit for ...
Do you know that "...it is impossible to know it is true"? Since you have what you call a pragmatic criterion for truth, you must realize that it's se...
Not so. People were logical before Aristotle developed formal logic. However, that doesn't mean the principles of logic were different before and afte...
Are you thinking about something right now? Of course you are. Kindly quantify whatever it is that you're thinking about? Note that I'm not denying th...
Ok. How do you know that this criterion for truth is correct? Methinks being pragmatic is just a cop out, another way of avoiding The Problem Of The C...
I'd like to contextualize this question not intraspecies, as comparative conduct within the human family, but interspecies, as comparative behavior be...
Well, are you saying the natural deduction rules contraposition and modus tollens are wrong? :chin: Contraposition 1. P -> Q 2. ~Q -> ~P....1 Contrapo...
Yes, truth is different to knowledge but the point is truth precedes knowledge in the sense that before one can claim to have knowledge, truths must e...
To All: Roderick Chisholm's account of The Problem Of The Criterion 1. Go for Particularism i.e. answer question 1 first. We assume some propositions ...
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