Not if you want to be a rational human being, you can't. So your mom told you that tigers are an existing species and that the offspring of two tigers...
It sounds like you have chosen option 2: That's fine, but you need to work through the cognitive dissonance inherent in objecting to other's positions...
My original claim was, "If P is truth-apt, then S is truth-apt." You responded by effectively saying, "But the question is whether P is truth-apt." My...
The fact that you wrote six posts in response makes me think that you know your approach is deeply problematic. If you think that you are not wielding...
That's just false, AmadeusD. Here is the example: I gave the example of "waking up" as an explicitly different example: You've literally lied about th...
That's a cop-out, to be sure. If you follow your Humean logic consistently, then you have no idea what you mean by "tiger," you have no grounds for be...
Did you see two or three things with stripes and then decide that there must be a whole species of tigers, that are all the same? You have a universal...
I would say that some philosophers follow Quine today. Not sure how many. I think there are less than you suppose. So do you think tigers exist or not...
Well I never said that. The problem here is that implication doesn't make sense among non-truth-apt things, but that's a separate issue. How is that s...
So you don't think science ever progresses or regresses on the criteria you laid out? You don't think there can be progression or regression in the ma...
Okay, great. Well if something is false then it is truth-apt, so this makes me think that you don't understand what "truth-apt" means. If P is not tru...
I would say that all sorts of laws and positive rights restrict one's right to contract. The GDPR is not unique in this. But I am really not up on Ter...
- I've been publicly in favor of limiting the ability to edit posts to < 5 minutes for a long time. I'm pretty sure Plush Forums doesn't provide that ...
- I don't know of any forums that are prepared to fight the legal battles required to oppose the colloquial sense of Article 17 of the GDPR. In theory...
I mean, you could give your definition of "true," but the point here is that if ways of life can be validated by propositions (facts) then they can al...
As I understand it, in some jurisdictions users have a legal right to have their posts and identity removed from the website if they so wish. Most for...
Coincidentally, in the homily this weekend the priest talked about this. He noted that he encourages the bride and the groom to memorize the vows, yet...
- I saw you say that! I found it interesting. It's something I will have to consider further. - I wasn't following his posts very carefully, but my hu...
That's nonsense, and evidence for this is the fact that you put 'truths' in scare quotes. You yourself know that you are not talking about truths when...
In set theoretic terms, one thing we could say is that every species is a subset and every genus is a superset. Another difference is that the species...
Can you say more about why post-modern skepticism makes truth threatening? A good point. Where could I find this in Plato? This is the sort of thing t...
"Physicalism" is a very common contemporary view that is usually recognized to be a form of materialism. It seems to me that all sorts of people belie...
Excellent. :up: I think when @"Count Timothy von Icarus" talks about "smallism," he is basically talking about the idea that reducing wholes to parts ...
I would lay out a general principle that addresses all sorts of things on TPF. Suppose that S ? P, and P is truth-apt. It follows that S is truth-apt....
, Here is a silly example. Suppose someone is a dog speed pluralist. All dogs are capable of running at the same top speed. In response we could point...
Okay, that's a good start. It seems to me that, given your substantial notion of science, pluralism among the sciences will not hold. I could give an ...
If we are intellectually honest then we do not talk about "truth" if we are subjectivists. "The same truth for all," is vacuously true, and follows fr...
But look at this argument: <One scientist is as much a scientist as another; therefore all sciences are equally scientific>. I have been trying to rai...
Well, it's not that a number holds for the iterative set, but rather that a relation or function holds for the iterative set. But yeah, that's close. ...
Well, a method without a goal would be like fishing without fish. Or , "no true ontological positions, only methodological ones," seems to posit metho...
Great post. I will have to come back to this when I have more time. Let me say just one thing: Could part of it be that the United States was explicit...
Yes, good. That could sum up my thread, "Argument as Transparency." Yes, there is a very old Aristotelian tradition which holds that speculative and p...
I think this is spot on. :up: In the first episode of Tom Holland's podcast, "The Rest is History," he points to the same parallels between pre-modern...
I wouldn't accuse Peterson of obscurantism on the whole, though he does lapse at times. He's basically an academic Jungian who has answered a cultural...
I would say that once we understand the meaning and also etymology of "method," we find that the idea doesn't make much sense in light of thousands of...
Okay, this looks like a great overview. It seems like you are building on what you said earlier, namely that the natural sciences are easier and the s...
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