My two sikkas ... It appears that there's no scientific principle, hypothesis, or theory that we can turn to to explain consciousness. As an example o...
:lol: I know you believe Gettier found a major flaw in the JTB theory of knowledge and I would like to discuss it further with you on a case-by-case b...
No, really. Flavor is determined by molecular structure - a certain configuration of molecules fits a given receptor, much like a jigsaw. In other wor...
That's a good point, but the flavor of strawberries is reducible to strawberry molecular structure. However the same can't be done for comprehension v...
I disagree with whoever this Vinay Prasad. Plus we need to be careful about interpretation. Masks don't fail 100% of the time. Even if the failure rat...
It seems your Enformationism, since it requires an equilibrium between negentropy/Enformy and entropy, is fully compatible with evil (re BothAnd) and ...
At an individual level, the difference may be too small to justify a recommendation to wear a mask, but in a social setting, even 1 person protected m...
I have a memory worse than a goldfish's. Thanks to :zip: Anway, my point is Gettier cases are interesting, but every single Gettier case I've encounte...
:up: The whole is not just the sum of its parts. Neurons, individually, can't do this :point: comprehend, but, together, as a brain, they can. How can...
Innocent until proven guilty! If it seems that P, then P is (only provisionally) true, to be swapped with Q, when P is proven false, such that one can...
True, what you're talking about is part of the overall worldview that includes the existence of souls/spirits. See, you do have the basic ingredients ...
:fire: :clap: :100: A person without a soul cannot know what you know mon ami! :lol: Jokes aside, I haven't really seen any argument that could at the...
I've lost track of the discussion mon ami. Suffice it to say that Gettier "problems" are pseudoproblems and the timehonored practice of checking one's...
:up: I think so too, but the Quantum puzzle (solved) doesn't (seem to) fit the General Relativity puzzle (solved). The Theory of Everything remains un...
You're exploring a vital aspect of the issue, but I would rather not go down that road. I'm bad at it and your precious time, mon ami, your ever so pr...
Well, in line with your beliefs, I'm inclined towards a no-time-limit view of causation (re chain of causation). Intriguingly, if I'm correct, some th...
The question is how do we work with just a word, an empty term, that from what we can infer has no referent. Are we supposed to plug in our own person...
From on another forum "what exists is that we can encounter but cannot will". Was Schopenhauer part of German idealism? As far as I can tell, Schopenh...
There must be a what it feels like to be a toothbrush? A good, imaginative writer, can easily pen a short story on that topic, oui? I was just sitting...
:up: Sorry for the double reply, but you seem to have updated your post with a comment on moksha. I don't know what it means exactly but I've seen it ...
:lol: Buddhism is the middle path and so can't affirm anything; anatta, an affirmation, isn't Buddhism; however, it is a part, only one-half, of the r...
Religion's origins can be retraced to uncertainties regarding the self and spawned the idea of souls in all cultures (the problem was/is/will be Thana...
Yep, that's what I believe happens too, but from what I've heard the soul of Buddhism, like that of a cornered government official, is to neither affi...
The horse example describes a fallible justified belief and it fulfills the JTB criteria although the justification is flawed and the proposition itse...
Wasn't it William K. Clifford who wrote The Ethics of Belief? It seems our priority is not to lose touch with reality (don't lose your sanity). Realit...
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