Agent Smith

You read me mind mon ami! I haven't been able to formulate as clear an understanding of understanding. What do you make of the following?

Amazing! I havta read up on the topic! Wikipedia should have an article or two on it. So you're suggesting that some people block out stuff that may b...

Ok. Arigato gozaimus.

Defense mechanisms - heard of those, quite a long time ago though. Are they still legitimate ideas in psychology? Could you please give me an example....

Oh! I remember now, Schrödinger's cat was Schrödinger's gibe at QM as it was probably being interpreted during his day. Not, it seems, to reveal profu...

The Everett Solution to Paradoxes It all boils down to the 3rd law of thought (the law of noncontradiction/the LNC). If A and not A are both true, we ...

Juat because we haven't found reasons doesn't imply that there are no reasons (moral realism is true). This is, to me, a perennial problem in epistemo...

Question: Can we construct a Gettier case without it being possible to rephrase any aspect of it in terms of a mistake/unknown? In the cow in the fiel...

\frac{3}{3} + \frac{3}{3} = 2

You're right, but only on a technical point and it's reassuring to see people like yourself with experience in philosophy around here. As to the topic...

Well, it's entirely within the realm of possibility that both groups will wanna break free, but for different reasons (duh!) and at different times. H...

Why, thank you! Good to see you too.

Apologies. Try reframing the topic (of discussion) temporally.

Logic agrees with you mon ami, but the problem, for me at least, is in what sense are norms meaningful if not by being "true"?

Sound advice. Danke! Well, truth is norms like "we should/shouldn't torture" can be true/false, but not in the same sense as say the statement "snow i...

Magnifique!

Who would've, even in his wildest imaginings, thought things so small as atoms would require us to posit things so large as multiverses? @"180 Proof" ...

Your honor, Mr. Brown's fingerprints were all over the house - on the door knob, on the knife, on the faucet, on the TV remote. However, there were tw...

Gracias. You're too kind. I'm plugged in, again.

Good points! However, apart from AI, which is still a fantasy, technology ain't the guy!

My bad, science is always trying to disprove itself and still its detractors are having such a tough time. How sad is that? You (antiscience brigade) ...

I believe you're correct. The notion norm is self-explanatory as far as I can tell. The heart of the matter is but the question "What the f**k am I do...

So is ssu right?

:chin: I'll have to think about that (when I can). For the moment I'd say we're pretty much in a reallydark spot despite the valiant efforts of many, ...

This is a superb question and I thank you for it. @"Wayfarer"'s posts, if you're interested enough to search for them, should point you in the right d...

@"Ludwig V" There's a rationale to miracles and interpretations thereof and it involves, inter alia, what truth (really) is.

Nice definition. Luck, to me, is, sensu latissimo, a conjunction of favorable (good luck) or unfavorable (bad luck) elements that have both short-term...

Ex mea (humble) sententia, let the facts speak for themselves. It can't be denied that when one is (sensu amplissimo) thinking, there's electrical act...

What's \aleph_1? Are we talkin' about the reals?

You've picked up the scent mon ami but que sais-je.

:rofl: As gentle as a lion can be, eh?

Isn't this argument circular?

Is there a phrase "pure experience"? What does it mean? Anyway, you, I suppose, put it in a way closer to the truth with "ultra-linguistic" - the flaw...

Logical positivism is, I'm told, self-refuting as it can't be verified. It puts verification first and foremost and subscribes to an obvious theory of...

Does all this have anything to do with Wittgenstein's private language "argument"? Ineffable means that which can't be put into words and I suspect th...

Are we conflating ineffability with something else?

@"Hanover" It all boils down to whether people have the time & skills to argue and argue well. To make matters worse arguments, no matter how well-cra...

Objection sustained!

What do you make of the statement, spoken by Brown to Jones, "I'll call you tomorrow at 9:00 AM" when 1. Jones does get a call from Brown at 9:00 AM (...

Thanks for the brief sketch of Star Trek lore. I know of the Borg, but one version of a cyborg is also an enhanced human being (vide Grace in Terminat...

There's gotta be a workaround for future claims.

Hume was onto something, eh? What needs to be added, assuming I'm on the right track, to 1. People kill 2. X Ergo, 3. Killing is bad 4. Y Ergo, 5. We ...

Yep! What do you make of trivalent logic? True, false, and ... ?

Ok!

An interesting OP by all accounts. We made an assumption (or is it a conclusion? Dunno) and you called us out on it. Fair enough. However, as far as I...

What's his fork? Can you edify me ... please?

Does this have anything to do with Hume's objection to ethics?

Principle of bivalence: There are only 2 truth values (true and false; a proposition is either true or false, but neither both nor neither) 1. ~A \rig...

I also like @"Pantagruel"'s answer. Gets right to the point and succinctly. Speaking for myself, machines & humans can be symbiotically integrated (cy...

God is the creator!