Yes: Exactly. Those who are bound to the truth are not bound to any person's will. Truth is the only thing that liberates from authoritarianism, as we...
Ah, I understand it better now ...I think. Some of this relates to my point about the part-whole relationship, where each implies the other. Right: "n...
...Apart from that setting of the stage, I will add one thing. We can also think about this in terms of commensurability and communicability. For exam...
Well we owe you, because the thread is in need of such a thing. :up: I agree. Okay, so we are searching for a question... So now we are asking, "Are t...
This whole approach is misguided, namely your idea that we need to look at one single field. The whole question is about overarching relations, both o...
Getting you to answer questions is like pulling teeth. That's why a theory like "Brownian motion" has to be postulated. Because you won't give honest ...
Following this: Why do you see this as a virtue epistemology? Here is what I think is required for a virtue epistemology in the way you are intending:...
But what does it mean to not be against arguments and reasons but deny overarching standards? Isn't rationality itself an overarching standard? I cert...
Good post. I would add that logic is ineluctable, to a certain extent. If someone tries to be altogether illogical they will fail. Their unconscious m...
As I muse, I want to say that for @"J" and the intersubjectivists/democrats, knowledge is conceived as a kind of democratic vote. These are the rules ...
You don't give any arguments for that assertion. Be that as it may, I will give you another argument for my own position. If I am to learn something f...
I gave an argument and you basically appealed to your "equality doctrine" and classed it as, "A standard way of looking at the world" - that as a way ...
Let me repeat this: If we do not admit that knowledge exists, that some things are right, and that some things are wrong, then we have banished oursel...
That you grant yourself the ability to contradict yourself while denying others the ability to contradict themselves would be one example. These are t...
No one tries to control what they know cannot be controlled. Thus a tyrant will generally not try to control mathematics, given that mathematics is so...
Yes, good. This is why I wouldn't have used the word "authority" in sentences like this one: The more generic term would be rule or criterion, where a...
No, your position is by definition incoherent. I outlined it <here>. Let me be frank. The fundamental problem for you and @"J" is that you overestimat...
Not only is this a misunderstanding of tu quoque, it is an invidious attempt to pre-invalidate any replies that might come. You are being lazy. You ar...
It is very gratifying to see this. There has been an unfortunate level of gaslighting in this thread, where the tyrannous accuse others of tyranny, an...
This is so interesting! Naivete among those who work in the real world, such as yourself, is very rare. :up: :fire: I have been thinking the same thin...
CC: @"Count Timothy von Icarus" I think @"Fire Ologist"'s notion of context carving or gerrymandering is apt and insightful. This sort of thing seems ...
Neither of us have said that. The strawman has been chugging for so long that it must be rather bored by now. :lol: Nevertheless: Banno is partially r...
Don't we have lots of threads where this question would be more on topic? It doesn't seem related to the things that have been discussed here. Edit: I...
And that seems right. Are you claiming that we could simultaneously claim that a statement is both undecided and ruled out? It seems odd to say that a...
Lots of false inferences going on here. With that said: See: (Note too that by appealing to SEP I am already using an argument from authority, namely ...
But only up to a point, because if two people have very little in common by way of approach, then they are not doing the same thing. Banno has made cl...
Good point. We could say, "If the contexts are just gerrymandered, then why think their various modes of practice are respectable or coherent?" If the...
But there are such criteria,* and you have already identified one. You have identified the criterion of good/appropriate. "Good" is precisely a "meta-...
Note here that Banno is offering a binary. "Either a contradiction follows or else a contradiction does not follow." Now if I were Banno I might , " W...
That makes sense. Yes, good. If a standard is not generalizable then it is not a standard at all. This relates to the connection between a particular ...
Sure, and that way of viewing it is understandable. I probably should have avoided the words "determinate" and "indeterminate," given that @"Count Tim...
A terminological point... There are "binaries" involved in your approach. Namely, disjunctions utilizing a contradictory pair. I feel as if we almost ...
Note that @"J"'s response is to continually try to restrict the domain to so-called " narratives": Instead of acknowledging @"Count Timothy von Icarus...
I will come back to the rest of your post, but dude, really? You think that when says, "Either all narratives are , or they aren't," he is saying that...
Okay. I would love for someone to point me to the place where @"J" provided a third option. I think the form of @"Count Timothy von Icarus"' statement...
Again: This form looks like a binary: "Either some X is Y or else no X is Y." If you or @"J" think that @"Count Timothy von Icarus" is setting up a fa...
All words have a semantic range. The question asks how the words are being used within a context or argument. @"Count Timothy von Icarus"'s "some dete...
Like calling someone obsessive, like this?: It's impressive how you squeeze hypocrisy into even the smallest posts. :wink: Determinate/indeterminate c...
This is the thesis that post was responding to: Since you disagreed with the person who disagreed with this thesis, I am assuming that you affirm the ...
They don't and they aren't, but leaving that aside, are you gainsaying the thesis that logic is about something other than language? Which of them do ...
Some here seem to have a prejudice against the very notion of contradictory pairs. For example: "Either the animal has eyes or else it doesn't." This ...
Good. I would also think here about pros hen or analogical predication. We can say, "The man is healthy," and, "The urine is healthy," but the latter ...
Lol. This is some wild mischaracterization. It would be great for you to quote @"Count Timothy von Icarus" to try to substantiate this very strange re...
But is this right? Are "determinate" and "indeterminate" poles, or are they contradictories? If they are poles, then they are like the North Pole and ...
When you divide the world into serious and unserious, you have already provided a definitive judgment. It is not substantive to say, "Well yes, I agre...
Interesting image! Good. Also, I think it becomes important to distinguish nominal freedom into different kinds, one of which is a right to "respond p...
@"Count Timothy von Icarus" I finally got around to reading this. A beautiful (kalos) piece! I appreciated its wholeness and integrity as a beautiful ...
That's pretty interesting! ...Not that it is too difficult to identify the problems, which are substantial, but it is a tidy critique on the basis of ...
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