Ludwig V

:up: :up: There are two things about philosophy that are not quite polite to mention. But they are important, nonetheless. Answers are not the point, ...

I agree about the full belly. However, having started another career which would have provided considerable comfort as well as a full belly, I had to ...

How very pragmatic of you. :smile:

What this high-lights is that we rely on a whole heap of assumptions in deciding what is true, or may be true, or isn’t true. But when we are reminded...

I've posted a starting-point with the title "Vogel's paradox of knowledge"

It seems that there is something of a consensus here. What I was getting at it that Wittgenstein doesn't say "Here is scepticism. This is my solution....

Thanks. I'll check it out.

My memory may be fallible, but I'm not sure W directly confronts the sceptic. He certainly thinks that many of the philosophical questions that he doe...

I have thought about this. I would like to start a new discussion for it. If we start what I have in mind on this thread, things will get confusing fo...

So what is your solution?

I've no problem with exploration. But I'm also cautious enough to find about as much as I can about what I'm getting into, and a clear idea of what I'...

We seem to have two quite distinct threads running through this thread. Never mind. I get quite worried about Wittgenstein's hints that there are thin...

OK. But it will take me a while to get things together.

Thanks for that link. It's nearly as good as Christmas. But I was thinking that perhaps it was time I read it again, so it is well timed.

Hah! I may be somewhat up to date about Gettier. About nearly everything else, I'm hopelessly out of date and scrambling to catch up. Although many th...

[reply="ucarr;779591" Oh, I think that all of those ways of coping are flawed. I'm often reminded of the painting "Landscape with fall of Icarus". It ...

Oops! We seem to have a crossed wire. I don't think that Gettier found a major flaw in theory of knowledge, but I did get interested in how Gettier cr...

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There's no doubt that coping with all the information available demands some sort of strategy or mechanism. Skepticism is not the only possibility. Ho...

Thank you for that collection. Typical, isn't it? He mentions a metaphor and passes on, as if it was transparent. Then elsewhere, you find another met...

Your distinction between Knowledge and knowledge reminds me also that what can be known depends on the conceptual framework within which it is known. ...

I agree that our discussion is getting rather confused. Perhaps we've gone as far as we need to. I agree with you that . Getter problems are all narra...

There’s a book or two to be found in these contributions. Forgive me if I don’t reply in detail. For what it’s worth, I’m very taken with Wittgenstein...

I’m not quite sure what the context is of your argument. But I do find that context is always important and it’s true that general epistemology, like ...

In my book, they certainly are failed and attempts at knowledge, so that’s fine. It is also true that my tipster believes that his horse will win. So ...

One of the most interesting features of the modern world, to my mind, is the interpenetration of the great traditions of the world. Western science se...

I disagree. Having a justification does not automatically promote a belief to knowledge. In particular, if the justification fails, we call the result...

I did a Ph.D. in philosophy, taught philosophy at degree level for a long time, ended up in edmin (education administration), and finally jumped into ...

I agree with you that scepticism about the value of deduction is not unreasonable and that human beings are fallible. Ever since Plato got hypnotised ...

We have to acknowledge that human beings are fallible and that we are human beings. But we are not always wrong, and it seems to me that the point of ...

I take it that a premiss is shaky if it is less than conclusively true and/or it is less than conclusive evidence for the conclusion? That implies tha...

There's something odd happening here. What you say is correct. Did I ever say anything to suggest that I thought something different?

So we agree! :smile: It follows that Smith’s belief that he is justified is not sufficient; we also have to accept that he is justified. In other word...

There might be all sorts of reasons for liking or disliking an example, but the most important criterion in our context is whether the example is clea...

If Smith’s belief is justified and true but not knowledge, then the JTB needs revision. If Smith’s belief isn’t justified, then the JTB has no problem...

I’m not unfamiliar with Quine and Davidson, but completely unfamiliar with this part of their output, though I've heard of Quine's "web of beliefs", w...

That is certainly true. Russell’s stopped clock is similar. It is an example devised by Bertrand Russell in Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits as a...

AGENT SMITH You are right, of course. But there are complications when you include belief, knowledge and justification in the scenario. Within this sc...

I disagree with it as well. I was specifying a belief that I think Gettier’s practice shows that he holds. Yes, it does hark back to atomic propositio...

In the case of deductively conclusive justification, I basically agree with you, with some qualifications, which probably don’t matter. I agree with y...

Well, that clarifies a great deal, and I agree that this dissolves the Gettier problem. But I do have qualifications. First, is this a diagnosis that ...

Thanks for your reply. There's no deadline for this. Whenever you are ready. I'm glad we have got the farmer sorted out. I look forward to your help w...

I apologize for my silence. Life has been rather busy and pre-occupied for the last couple of weeks. You may have lost interest by now, but just in ca...

I'm not sure that it is quality that matters most to me. There's a lot of very different kinds of stuff going on, but that allows me to be selective. ...

In principle, this is just taking the computer analogy seriously, and I wouldn't argue that that analogy is not useful. In the case of the machines, i...

That's all certainly true. I remember seeing quoted from Hacker. According to him, a description of an experience will be of a tickle, a twinge, a pai...

I'm sorry I have taken so long to respond to your posts. I am distracted by the approach of Christmas with all that entails and my time for philosophy...

We've got into a very complex and difficult debate. It isn't just a matter of empirical research, but of interpretation of the results and the princip...

Have you never seen a dog or a horse tentatively sniffing at something? For me, that often amounts to asking the question whether the something is edi...

Thanks for that. Very interesting. I like the piece about AI working out what penguins believe. Being only a philosopher, I can't resist commenting th...