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We've discussed this some already, of course. To me philosophy is not simply constituted by (potentially) justifiable claims. It makes such claims abo...

Perhaps norms of intelligibility, which can be identified perhaps with semantic constraints, are too readily mistaken to Sunday School platitudes. All...

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I agree that something like a finishing touch or final spin is added at each moment, but it strikes me as unrealistic to ignore the weight of the past...

How are such contexts to be decided if not rationally ? This is as simple as offering reasons for claim that a context is or is not subject to rationa...

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Somehow our heiroglyphs (metaphors) gather a meaning not originally there...a new abstract sense. The original image can fade completely. 'Life' emerg...

I just read Erik Larson's The Myth of Artificial Intelligence. He makes a strong case that computers are doomed to stupidity, unless a necessarily unp...

You then go on to talk of chirps and screams that mean nothing ? Behaviorism has its heart in the right place.

:up: Good point. Another trap, though, is simply giving up on the labor of clarifying concepts. No one cares if the Target cashier has strong account ...

I also like to zoom out and think in terms of chirps and screams. Perhaps the protocol is the meaning. This protocol swells and becomes self-referenti...

The territory might just be that our maps aren't ever exhaustive or entirely trustworthy. Let's say that the territory is all true statements. Let's s...

The point, as I see it, is that Descartes is supposed to start with nothing. He takes some concept of the self for granted, missing or choosing to ign...

We talk earlier in the thread about truth and time and then off and on about meaning as use. I found these passages illuminating. I'd link it if I had...

'True' has a use like the twelve on a traditional clockface or North on a compass. Or like the knight on a chessboard. A justified belief may be false...

I guess I side with Dreyfus in thinking Heidegger is being self-righteously pejorative, as if he can't help himself, despite in other places insisting...

:up: To me this is why truth is absolute. Warranted or justified beliefs can be false. Unwarranted or unjustified beliefs can be true. Justification i...

It's got that old-fashioned Hegelian optimism that's hard to embrace these days. What I like about it is that it recognizes that reality is intelligib...

Sure, but this is a comment about belief. It's psychology, not grammar.

We never find that it is true, in my view. A conjecture becomes a belief. In my view, truth is absolute.

Well, yes, of course.

I agree. I've actually mentioned this use several times so far though. I read the word 'not' into the above. To assume P is to no longer be wary of us...

I suggest that knowledge is not about certainty but rather about protocols. Do I know that \sqrt{2} is irrational ? Yes. But I can't gaze on it. I jus...

As far as I can tell, there's nothing more primary or given...for us at least...than asking for reasons. Do you want me to believe or do something wil...

Yes, I would lie to protect the innocent. Deception is part of war, and I would not feel bad at all about waging war on the Gestapo. I don't resent pa...

:up: I think the minimal concept of truth is involved in tracking that possibility of error. :up: I agree. But I don't think certain pragmatist versio...

I could be trusting the word of another. Knowledge is about warranted assertion. If I turn out to be wrong, I can make a case for my right to have mad...

Are we just not understanding one another ? I admit that I can't grasp what you are saying. I'm trying to experiment with wording to achieve consensus...

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Right. But I find this approach to Cartesian. Although we have our own sense organs and nervous systems (which makes this view tempting), I think the ...

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I think you are correct. But I also think that truth plays a role in a structure. Mostly we care about belief, and 'true' seems like a tool for talkin...

If I tell you that there are plums in the icebox, I'm talking about those plums in that icebox. I'm not foregrounded my imagination or my motives for ...

I wouldn't mind, except the dominant version seems to include too much machinery. It's just the use/mention distinction. To mention P, I put it in quo...

Fair enough. But that's not the intention of 'te cat is on the mat.' Because we can say 'I am picturing a cat on the mat just now." We reveal the worl...

We might consider though that men like playing with men and women with women. In other words, it's not just about raw performance but also about the s...

:up: As long as we progressives aren't attacking science, I think we are in the clear. We don't want a Lysenko-style disaster. But a quick search seem...

Putting aside challenges to biology (which would seem to be anti-scientific and justly targeted by allusions to 1984), the issue seems to be simply on...

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If that's someone means by the CT, then I'd put them in my camp. But my impression is that usually an intermediate something is involved, not just a t...

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Are we to understand the string of words as a 'picture' ? Do we really need this metaphor ? I can see why it's tempting. We are such visual creatures ...

Your position is unclear to me. I understand the deflationary theory to be opposed to and different than (and simpler and cleaner than ) the correspon...

I agree. Call it prejudice, but telling the truth seems beautiful and noble to me. I connect this to intuitions that Kantian articulated. Lying steals...

Sure. One understanding of Hegel is that individuals and cultures progress in response to contradictions that appear in the concepts they continually ...

:up: I agree, and I value Popper for emphasizing this. Creativity is central. We grow our shared beliefs, our best guess at the truth.

To me that's just the redundancy theory, which I embrace. I attribute this to Aristotle, or I think his formulation works with the redundancy approach...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeworld Husserl seems to be gesturing at the same 'pregiven' shared situation or primordial we-world that I'm calling ...