Magnus Anderson

That's not what I said. We can discuss all sorts of imaginary scenarios if you want to. We can talk about the life of a psychopath and the kind of dec...

Gravity isn't a universal rule. There is no such a thing as a universal rule. There are temporary rules and among them there are rules that exist for ...

You appear to think that there is a universal set of rules that everyone must adhere to. There isn't such a thing. Anyone can do whatever they want. W...

You can also say we came up with both inductive and deductive reasoning just recently. You think that induction isn't about "deducing" what's going to...

Well, you don't have to doubt everything at once. In fact, you don't have to doubt at all. Nonetheless, the point remains that everything can be doubt...

Some people think that "you can doubt X" is the same as or is necessarily followed by "you must immediately start doubting X". Apparently, these folks...

Every single inductive argument can be presented as a deductive argument without any kind of significant loss. Here's an example of an inductive argum...

Do you think it's more important to know the extent to which your interlocutors are grammatically correct than it is to know what they are trying to s...

Sort of what I said? Why is this so? It's clear to me Moore's propositions are empirical. "Here's a hand" means "what I'm looking at right now is what...

I am looking into it. I have to say this is all very confusing. We have this weird guy who calls himself Moore and who wants to prove the existence of...

I find the very term "language game" rather strange. It apparently means nothing other than "set of restrictions". Still, it bothers me that there are...

Well, a synthetic version of "Here is a hand" appears to me to be a knowledge claim. This means it can either be true or false; or if you prefer to th...

I could be wrong but I think the central point of this thread is Wittgenstein's claim that Moore's propositions such as "Here is a hand" are neither t...

Exactly.

If you want to decide whether something is true or false, and you don't want this to be an arbitrary decision, there must be a standard. There must be...

That's exactly the same as saying "but, assuming that the future mimics the past, I cannot imagine the existence of zombies". You can't do something i...

Your point is basically "if you accept that the premises are true and that the logic is valid then the conclusion is necessarily true". That amounts t...

The word "indubitable" either has no meaning, in which case it is true that nothing is indubitable, or it simply means dubitable to a relatively low d...

What did I say? Don't confuse what you think I said with what I really said.

Because it's not important.

Is it really important? I think that this is nothing but distraction. @"Banno"'s claim that analytic propositions are indubitable is also a form of di...

Noone cares about Popper. Every test either verifies or falsifies that which is being tested. Popper had this weird obsession with falsification. Anyw...

In order for a statement to be testable (verifiable/falsifiable) there must be something against which it can be compared. Mathematical equations must...

It could be dubitable. But first, you have to give me an example of what it means to doubt such a statement. Apparently, it should mean that there are...

You verify that a mathematical equation is true by checking whether it belongs to some set of mathematical equations. You verify that "not T = F" is t...

I am not saying "doubt everything". What I am saying is that "everything can turn out to be wrong". There is no statement that is indubitable. Rather,...

Mathematical equations such as 2+2=4 are not immune to doubt. They can turn out to be wrong. One only has to understand how. How do we determine wheth...

You have this problem of not being able to respond to what I am saying with something that is in some way relevant. My point is that there is nothing ...

That's right.

It means their will decides how lemons taste to you. It means there is a strong correlation between what they want you to experience and what you expe...

>> If I remember correctly, my example is that the teacher is an expert, and the information or evidence you have gives you reasons to believe he is a...

It's not real because it is fabricated by aliens.

Lemons might not be bitter. There is a possibility. It might be the case that our perception is altered by hidden forces (e.g. aliens.) Each time we t...

That's of no relevance. I want to understand how things work. I am not interested in value judgments. I don't care if you or someone else likes or dis...

Alright. So your point is that sometimes there are no reasons to doubt. I agree with that. However, how does that have any impact on what I am saying ...

I am describing what is possible. I am not giving instructions on how to doubt. That's beside the point. You can question his expertise for a start. Y...

I understand that. What I don't understand is this: why do you think that in the example that you gave it makes no sense to doubt?

It makes sense to doubt in such a situation. I gave you an example. Not necessarily. For example, it is possible to doubt for no reason at all.

I am not following. You have a guy describing the rules of chess to you and you are doubting . . . exactly what? You say "everything he says". What do...

I don't know. Is it? It's relative. You decide whether it is reasonable to doubt (i.e. whether you *should* doubt) or not. That's my point.

The point is that nothing is immune to doubt. And what is rational and useful is relative.

I don't doubt this thread is in English. But if I wanted to, I could. That's my point. Let me restate that: I don't doubt this thread is in English be...

There is nothing that is immune to doubt. We can doubt anything we want. And when we don't, it's merely because we decided not to do so. Justification...

Thought = assumption. Assumption is a general term. Prediction is more specific and that's the reason I don't use it. It refers only to those assumpti...

Let's just say you're a retard.

No problem at all. Well, you certainly are making progress in the sense that you are getting closer to understanding my position.

It depends on how you define the concept of object. You can define it any way you want. It depends on your needs. Sometimes, we define it to include t...

I don't see why you shouldn't be able to say that the same thing can be in two different locations at once. Concepts are human inventions. You can cre...

One and the same thing can be different at different points in time. For example, a man in his 60's can be very different from the man he was in his 2...

Does that mean that when we say that two balls are the same, in the sense that they have the same color and the same size, that we are wrong because t...