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TheMadFool

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Discussions (451)

Gettier Problem.

December 06, 2021 at 12:19 797 comments Metaphysics & Epistemology

Malus Scientia

October 27, 2021 at 14:48 82 comments Metaphysics & Epistemology

YHWH & Language

October 13, 2021 at 12:00 35 comments Humanities and Social Sciences

Truthiness

October 07, 2021 at 18:17 21 comments General Philosophy

Razor Tongue

October 05, 2021 at 03:54 22 comments General Philosophy

Number Sense

September 28, 2021 at 15:31 33 comments Logic & Philosophy of Mathematics

The Turing Rule

September 26, 2021 at 16:29 41 comments General Philosophy

To The Mods

August 04, 2021 at 04:28 18 comments Questions

Meno's Paradox

July 26, 2021 at 21:36 11 comments Metaphysics & Epistemology

Polosophy

June 01, 2021 at 15:03 13 comments The Lounge

Negation Paradox

May 14, 2021 at 04:49 50 comments Logic & Philosophy of Mathematics

Fallacy Fallacy

May 08, 2021 at 01:39 13 comments Logic & Philosophy of Mathematics

Aim Game

April 30, 2021 at 05:29 1 comments General Philosophy

The Shape Of Time

February 11, 2021 at 02:58 17 comments Logic & Philosophy of Mathematics

The Speed Of Light

November 28, 2020 at 22:46 19 comments Logic & Philosophy of Mathematics

Negation Trouble!

November 26, 2020 at 13:19 4 comments Logic & Philosophy of Mathematics

Zero & Infinity

November 13, 2020 at 09:43 20 comments Logic & Philosophy of Mathematics

Time Isn't Real

November 08, 2020 at 14:43 42 comments General Philosophy

Contradictions!

November 05, 2020 at 09:27 46 comments Logic & Philosophy of Mathematics

The Porter

September 22, 2020 at 11:26 14 comments General Philosophy

Reason And Doubt

August 15, 2020 at 08:21 204 comments Metaphysics & Epistemology

Mary's Room

July 11, 2020 at 22:44 126 comments Philosophy of Mind

Love & Water

May 19, 2020 at 07:15 14 comments General Philosophy

Time Paradox

April 07, 2020 at 09:31 158 comments General Philosophy

Curry's Paradox

January 06, 2020 at 20:27 40 comments Logic & Philosophy of Mathematics

Homo suicidus

September 07, 2019 at 07:55 24 comments General Philosophy

Nothing = Infinity

August 31, 2019 at 17:26 1 comments Logic & Philosophy of Mathematics

Living Gas!

August 31, 2019 at 10:31 7 comments Philosophy of Science

Infinity and zero

February 04, 2019 at 04:55 2 comments Logic & Philosophy of Mathematics

Happiness

October 04, 2018 at 13:56 13 comments General Philosophy

God n Science

June 03, 2018 at 07:20 13 comments General Philosophy

Radical doubt

February 09, 2018 at 05:21 55 comments General Philosophy

NONEXISTENCE

January 17, 2018 at 15:32 5 comments General Philosophy

Death Paradox

December 21, 2017 at 16:23 9 comments General Philosophy

What is faith?

December 19, 2017 at 06:46 156 comments Philosophy of Religion

About time

December 13, 2017 at 06:06 30 comments Metaphysics & Epistemology

What is NOTHING?

September 23, 2017 at 11:30 279 comments Metaphysics & Epistemology

Jokes

August 07, 2017 at 08:35 71 comments The Lounge

A logic question

August 01, 2017 at 09:01 3 comments Logic & Philosophy of Mathematics

The Liar Paradox

July 22, 2017 at 22:32 24 comments Logic & Philosophy of Mathematics

Why?

July 18, 2017 at 15:08 2 comments Logic & Philosophy of Mathematics

Meaning Paradox

July 17, 2017 at 04:15 60 comments Philosophy of Language

18 God

July 12, 2017 at 17:04 2 comments General Philosophy

Fate

July 04, 2017 at 06:41 47 comments General Philosophy

Groot!

June 10, 2017 at 11:12 57 comments Philosophy of Language

Yin Yang

June 06, 2017 at 05:39 26 comments The Lounge

Holy shit!

March 10, 2017 at 04:51 52 comments The Lounge

God will exist

February 23, 2017 at 11:30 7 comments Philosophy of Religion

Zeno's paradox

February 17, 2017 at 07:27 527 comments General Philosophy

Comments

:ok:
December 08, 2021 at 01:51
Any examples that cause problems for the JTB theory of knowledge?
December 08, 2021 at 01:21
:ok: Violation of what I call the proportio divina rule: The conclusion is not proportionate to the premises. Correct conclusion: That (the waving clo...
December 08, 2021 at 01:20
For me, Nietzsche's amor fati is a call to reconfigure our attitude towards life/reality as there really is nothing we can do to alter our circumstanc...
December 08, 2021 at 00:43
Change begs the question A familiar example of "change": An (unripe) green banana becomes a (ripe) yellow banana. Unripe/green banana has changed to a...
December 08, 2021 at 00:16
@"Cheshire" :lol:
December 07, 2021 at 23:45
P = Aliens exist. There's a proposition but I don't know if P or ~P because I don't have proof (justification).
December 07, 2021 at 23:23
Vulnerable means, in my book, to be deprived of all means of escape/relief - there's nothing you can do (amor fati) and so :grin: and bear it!
December 07, 2021 at 23:18
Perhaps... In 1D, points are an issue since they're zero dimensional. How can any number of nothings (points) add up to something ( length)? In 2D and...
December 07, 2021 at 23:14
I didn't want to rain on the OPs parade, plus there's a grain of truth in his post (foils/enhancers are a time-tested plot device). I don't mean to gi...
December 07, 2021 at 23:06
How does a robotic hand catch thrown objects? My hunch is it uses Newtonian mechanics, the formulae therein, to do a superfast calculation of an objec...
December 07, 2021 at 19:23
:smile:
December 07, 2021 at 18:47
I'm with you on the mind being just what the brain does (physicalism), but, this is where we diverge, I'm persuaded to believe that the mind can be tr...
December 07, 2021 at 18:46
There seems to be two ways of approaching the issue: i) Armchair philosophy: A priori way. Just sit there in your favorite chair and see if the mind m...
December 07, 2021 at 18:42
:gasp:
December 07, 2021 at 17:45
Hi RussellA. Sorry for being so bold as to intrude upon your careful thoughts on the matter. If you ask me, humor consists of patterns and off the top...
December 07, 2021 at 16:04
Do you mind? Does it matter? I think mind = matter, at least in the two preceding questions. The puzzle can be solved by looking at the other words vi...
December 07, 2021 at 15:59
Premise indicator words: because, since, for the reason that, after all, etc. Conclusion indicator words: Hence, ergo, therefore, thus, for that reaso...
December 07, 2021 at 15:27
OP, you're absolutely right. Vide List of best-selling books. . Satan/The Devil/Lucifer/The Deceiver as the arch-villain. Lord Voldemort/Tom Marvolo R...
December 07, 2021 at 15:11
Relevant ideas: 1. Domino Effect 2. Chain Reaction 3. Slippery slope 4. Camel's nose
December 07, 2021 at 15:04
The I has to be unique. In the real world, there are many Jack Cumminses but in TPF, there's only ONE :point: YOU! An aside: Our world cannot be a sim...
December 07, 2021 at 11:21
Causality is complex 1. Necessary cause 2. Sufficient cause 3. Proximate cause 4. Remote cause 5. Contributory cause That's all I can recall off the t...
December 07, 2021 at 11:03
Compare the above quote which implies that reality and our picture of reality may not correspond in order that we may live long enough, in evolutionar...
December 07, 2021 at 10:55
Good question. What could humanists consider so valuable that, if really forced to, they would become radicalized? See? People need to be pushed into ...
December 07, 2021 at 09:43
:chin: It has come to this. Some countries are in such bad shape that they need to be led by gangsters. Who knows whether that's not true of "genuine"...
December 07, 2021 at 09:33
I cited an example :point: José Mujica, a counterexample to my claim that politics is dirty. However, I wasn't committing a sweeping generalization fa...
December 07, 2021 at 06:35
Space is an aspect of the real world that's closest to nothing. Some people describe a sense of liberation when they're in the wide plains of the step...
December 07, 2021 at 06:31
I think you're taking it just a tad bit too far. Good post nonetheless.
December 07, 2021 at 05:26
Why? I think your impression of what I said reflects the peculiarities of your own worldview. So the choices are grin and bear it or gamble your life ...
December 07, 2021 at 05:25
:grin: It's an open secret, huh?
December 07, 2021 at 05:16
José Mujica. Do you know any other people you who are like him?
December 07, 2021 at 05:15
Update You're a farmer. Scenario 1: You see what looks like a cow (it's a cloth waving in the breeze). You say to yourself "there's a cow in my field....
December 06, 2021 at 18:25
The 2nd law of thermodyanmics admits of/allows for entropy to reduce. There's a non-zero chance, even if vanishingly small, that all the matter in the...
December 06, 2021 at 18:13
:flower:
December 06, 2021 at 18:01
Intellectual Property Rights? :chin: After 30 or so years, the stipulated shelf life of an idea, when it's been milked dry, every penny squeezed out o...
December 06, 2021 at 17:55
I hope to but not anytime soon. By the way, IF the JTB definition is going to be tinkered around with in the way you describe, sure you're on target.
December 06, 2021 at 17:47
I don't think philosophy is done that way. We can't/shouldn't employ substandard definitions. We need clear-cut concepts.
December 06, 2021 at 17:44
Hi Jack. Some say the I is imaginary like i = \sqrt{-1} but then something extraordinary happens: the imaginary I has to realize that it's imaginary (...
December 06, 2021 at 17:42
What is Gettier's definition of "justification"? I'm curious.
December 06, 2021 at 17:30
Please read above.
December 06, 2021 at 17:26
To All Justification is just another word for argument. A deductive argument is such that if it's valid and the premises are true (sound argument), th...
December 06, 2021 at 17:25
:smirk:
December 06, 2021 at 17:21
This is unjustified. We've already crossed that bridge.
December 06, 2021 at 17:21
Don't sweat it.
December 06, 2021 at 17:19
Gimme an example of a false belief that's justified. Inductive arguments are not allowed.
December 06, 2021 at 17:18
I change my mind.
December 06, 2021 at 17:10
I guess the right way to claim knowledge is to put an "if" before it. IF all my assumptions are true then P is true.
December 06, 2021 at 17:10
Not justified. An assumption - the calculator is working - was false.
December 06, 2021 at 17:09
The standard response to that would be a presupposition was wrong. Gettier isn't right still. I'm not justified.
December 06, 2021 at 17:07
Justification is not sufficient for truth but I have a feeling that it's a necessary condition. Oh! Gödel.
December 06, 2021 at 17:04