Is photography mere photon manipulation? I don't know if you fall into that group. It's hard to spot photographers. They disguise themselves, blending...
I guess I don't see science and scientific objectivity as separate from philosophical virtue, even in the realm of "reality as lived." It seems like a...
That doesn't surprise me, but it is interesting. Yep, I like Vervaeke. Though I don't know him too well. The excerpt from Perl is relevant to @"J"'s i...
You sort of walked into that one, Wayfarer. :wink: I think the grammatical and spelling mistakes are an indicator of what your thesis does to Fooloso'...
It's fairly obvious that you don't understand what Michael is saying, but you're slowly coming along. I see you've now made it to my post <here>, repe...
Well, the traditional thesis is that truth depends on mind. See, for example, 's post. I don't see that you've changed Banno's claim. Here are the two...
You seem to be falling into a common form of sophistry, as follows: <absurdity> = "It is possible for truth to be unknowable in principle" 1. Realism ...
- Well, thrash metal was not idiosyncratic if we limit ourselves to the 1980's, but I am thinking in terms of centuries and millennia. It helps preven...
That's not a characteristically realist view. Realists have not historically claimed that because objects can exist apart from minds, therefore truth ...
...Because if you think the question of whether the cat is in the box is a verifiable question, then in Michael's terms you are an "antirealist." And ...
Yes, that seems right to me. Good quotes. But note that for the Thomist intellectual knowledge depends on an immaterial intellect. You could construe ...
Is everyone on the same page that Descartes gives an argument for his existence from doubt? (link) Some, like , seem to be missing this. The "shift fr...
This is an odd thing to say in the context of Socrates, is it not? Socrates paid more heed to his daimon than to any man. I'm not even sure it makes s...
Yep. But I'm wondering, "What is the corrective?" Contemplation? Truth over disputatiousness? I like some of the late Thomas Hopko's ideas on this, wh...
Well I would say that the Socratic examination of opinion is all about the transcendence of opinion. This is the common view, and the way Fooloso read...
If all life disappeared from the universe, but everything else remained undisturbed, would there still be foxes? Whether truth remains undisturbed tur...
Yes. I will come back to this, but let me just say that realism is the view that something is real. If one thinks that universals are real then they a...
You claimed, "If all life disappeared from the universe, but everything else is undisturbed, then it would still be true that there is gold in Boorara...
You claimed, "If all life disappeared from the universe, but everything else is undisturbed, then it would still be true that there is gold in Boorara...
Well he literally said, "If all life disappeared from the universe, but everything else is undisturbed, then it would still be true that there is gold...
A funny picture, but perhaps mistaken: I don't think it's all philosophy has ever done. I think it's a very recent phenomenon. To argue about what som...
Yes. Do you remember when in one of your threads I disagreed with Pinter's idea that shape is not inherent to objects? For me the strangeness of Banno...
So then, @"Michael", it looks like Banno does subscribe to something very near to the strained version of realism that you outline. That's at least on...
I was thinking about the fact that a good thread or argument must be strong but not vacuously true, and therefore it must be contentious and yet not o...
Well, Descartes wants to occupy the same space as the Pyrrhonist. He has a different goal, but he does not want to provide himself with a guarantee th...
Interesting thread. :up: Yes, I think Sartre is right, at least with respect to doubt. Agreed. I don't follow this. Are you supposing that the Evil De...
You could, but I am not. My point is that argument 1 and argument 2 are different arguments. Argument 2 could be an enthymeme form of argument 1, but ...
Generally we do not believe that everyone has legal standing (locus standi). Similarly, it is the duty of the judge to punish the perpetrator and aven...
The question is whether that distinction is relevant when it comes to justification. (1) is not demonstrative. Mortality, for example, is an inductive...
Were @"Michael" to disagree with this, he would have to show us a justifiable truth with no justification. (What is happening here is that there is a ...
So we have something like tiers of sophistry: Michael: An argument explicitly leveraging explosive inferences is valid. (light sophistry) Michael: Arg...
This is metalogic, but note that validity is meant to show how conclusions rightfully follow from premises. It is meant to provide us with a way to th...
Sure, but a premise that is not doing any work in an argument is not a premise of the argument. It is an unrelated proposition. You want to say that i...
You think it's valid because of explosion. It's that simple. Again: Michael: Susie's argument is valid because of explosion. Tones: Susie's argument i...
Comments