After clearing my cache I can now see it. Actually I can only see it when I am logged out. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/15987/tpf-essay-t...
If I were teaching a logic class I would ask you to provide an argument for your conclusion, "...Therefore, no conspiracy theory is an IBE." If you re...
- The question of external sites archiving parts of the internet is a separate question, but it is not true that everything on the internet gets archi...
But isn't it just a truism to say that one should prefer the better to the worse? That's why a preference for the best is not a substantial position. ...
Interesting - I did not know that. That seems right to me. Okay, but can you elaborate on this? I'm not too familiar with Candace Owens. I know she br...
What happened to the philosophical essays from the event that @"Moliere" initiated recently? I was trying to find @"Baden"'s entry, "Technoethics: Fre...
But again, if nothing is certain—even conceptually—then you can't weigh anything as more or less certain. The labels "conspiracy theory" or "inference...
Okay, great. You are introducing a number of complex issues on which we may disagree at a relatively fundamental level. I don't agree with this first ...
Liberalism has all sorts of definitions. My claim is that if a society stops lying to itself in the way I outlined then it is no longer liberal (i.e. ...
So one example would be the shift from the popularity of WWF and WWE to the popularity of MMA. With the former there was a cognitive dissonance where ...
Yes, and the same could be said of AI. But I don't think truth ever really dies. A conspiracy theorist with a YouTube channel that generates lots of v...
One of the central problems with liberalism is the incoherence of its neutrality principle. Liberalism claims that it is a neutral, universal, traditi...
Yep. Banno began by arguing against explanation in favor of description, and has now fallen back to a different position, namely by opposing "complete...
quoted this exchange: Now I have no idea what, "this is how the world works" is supposed to mean. The claim was literally, "A blow with a baseball bat...
That's a fair point, but my difficulty is that the word is almost always being used pejoratively and not substantively. For example, if we actually us...
I would say that "conspiracy theory" is a fairly empty term in this pejorative sense. If it refers to "irrational jumping to a conclusion," then of co...
This is right, as I was trying to point out to @"Relativist" elsewhere. I'm not sure you have a very clear notion of 'explanation'. Why did it fall? B...
You are just repeating your non-answer. Tyranny is still tyranny, whether in the hands of the anti-racist or the racist. Same bat, different side: mig...
So if someone says this: And yet they can provide no account of how their claim is supposed to be empirically or logically falsifiable, your response ...
You are fixing on "persuasive" too much, and also ignoring the difference between soundness and truth that I have pointed out to you on many occasions...
@"J"'s central move is to say that if someone thinks truth is a necessary condition of knowledge, then they must explain how truth can be known apart ...
Consider this post a bookmark, as I have been wanting to respond to these posts but haven't had the time and am now occupied again. I think there are ...
Right, I am saying the same thing. Yes, and my point is that if one rejects the traditional sense of truth then JTB in its traditional sense naturally...
Good post. :up: This is what I was pointing up earlier with the pool analogy. If J and T are conceived of along the lines of that analogy, then the "t...
@"Janus" I think the central argument is as follows, and you have been wrestling with it throughout your posts: 1. If something could be false, then w...
To elaborate: @"J" is basically saying, "We must reject JTB because it makes truth a condition for knowledge." "We must stop drinking milk because it ...
Right, and to restate my point, @"J"'s objection holds against any theory of knowledge which takes truth to be a necessary condition of knowledge, and...
I'm sort of wondering what context people take JTB to be coming from. That some are referencing Plato and others are referencing Ayer is a pretty sign...
Okay good, and therefore let me try to answer one of your questions from a different thread here, in part because I will be out for a few days: Not a ...
That's also an intelligible argument, but I think it's weaker than the other one. This is because it seems to commit the error of applying the LEM to ...
That's a fair argument. It is similar to a comment asked me about, and which could perhaps be folded into this thread: You seem to be saying that "epi...
The problem with "hate speech" is that it very often involves hostile translation. It very often amounts to, "You don't think your speech is hateful, ...
If I combine this: And this: Is there a contradiction? Consider this proposition as if it were itself a truth: <Ontological truths (which are absolute...
Right, and I think this is the more central piece for @"J", along with what has said. It goes back to this: Put more simply, for someone like @"J" eve...
There is an interesting meta-question here. Given that you don't actually believe in truth or knowledge and therefore are forced into an intersubjecti...
If there were only one proposition, then how could there be an entailment? Gettier's argument depends on the entailment, and entailments involve at le...
Again, I see no modus tollens there. The inference needed to achieve C is modus ponens, not modus tollens. Second, let's do the substitutions that I s...
Yes, that's well said. You my be interested in Count Timothy's thread, "The Myopia of Liberalism." As to the question of whether it is the liberal sta...
Here is your argument: Here is my construal: Here is your construal: Isn't it clear that your construal is mistaken? Try substituting 1, 2, and 3 into...
Okay, that is an interesting way to approach the problem. The reason I don't think it works is because if Smith were using "the man who will get the j...
Yeah, I think this is right, despite the fact that we seem to be beating a dead horse. Interesting quote. :up: Is the source, "Encyclopedia of Catholi...
There are lots of interesting ideas there, but let me focus on just one: I think this is on point, and it is at least clear that our current stage of ...
The strawmen abound. I've already explained why this is a misconstrual in places like this: Or that "balance" approaches are fine, but not unique: If ...
Well, I think Gettier creates a strange division between justification and truth, but the Gettier cases I am familiar with involve a proposition that ...
I think the first thing is this: So on JTB we will only know we have failed when we know that one of the three conditions is absent. And we cannot kno...
What is JTB for? It is not a "test" in the sense that we have a machine that allows us to practically run any knowledge-claim through it and know in f...
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