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DasGegenmittel

['Member']Joined: March 19, 2025 at 20:18Last active: February 01, 2026 at 00:313 discussions58 comments

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@"Ourora Aureis", our disagreement isn’t the real issue. The real issue is that the stance you’ve put forward is dogmatic, internally unstable, arbitr...
June 19, 2025 at 08:43
Come on — it’s almost comical how you blow my point up to whatever scale you fancy, as though violence were a single end-stage toggle instead of a spe...
June 18, 2025 at 19:39
I still see no evidence supporting your accusation of explicit and immediate violence.
June 17, 2025 at 17:44
I still see no evidence supporting your accusation of explicit and immediate violence. - - - Your entire line of questioning rests on a series of fals...
June 17, 2025 at 16:00
That is naive, self-righteous, and once again a misinterpretation of what I wrote. But first, something else… Would you respond to the following quote...
June 17, 2025 at 10:26
@"Ourora Aureis" TLDR; You speak the language of principle, but there’s nothing behind it — no framework, no ethical grounding, no awareness of conseq...
June 17, 2025 at 07:02
I wonder what Karl Popper would say about that.
June 16, 2025 at 12:21
@"Cheshire" I agree with much of what you’ve said. Still, I think it’s essential to show why certain approaches fail—not just that they don’t work, bu...
May 13, 2025 at 07:04
No one has ever claimed that these cases constitute knowledge. The whole point of the Gettier problem is precisely that the definition is fulfilled, y...
May 12, 2025 at 06:48
@"Cheshire" It’s not about undermining scientific measurement — it’s about illustrating how, even with methodical reasoning, truth and justification c...
May 11, 2025 at 22:09
@"Cheshire" thanks for the response — and for raising the strawman concern. Let me clarify and build on what you’ve said. That’s why I refer to the pu...
May 11, 2025 at 19:52
The problem with knowledge is that it is used in a paradoxical way; we need a knowledge dualism. On the one hand, we say “I know” in cases where we ca...
May 11, 2025 at 07:56
The epistemological challenge lies in not confining knowledge solely to being, for becoming gives rise to forms of dynamic knowledge—discursive, conte...
May 10, 2025 at 10:58
You’re right to sense that Gettier highlights a missing temporal dimension in the traditional definition of knowledge. But that insight goes deeper th...
May 10, 2025 at 10:10
@"Count Timothy von Icarus" This is a particularly fascinating and important topic because it challenges us. As you pointed out, both objects and enti...
May 10, 2025 at 09:58
Plato would argue that knowledge is intrinsically tied to “what truly is.” It entails a turning of the soul toward the unchanging and the realm of bei...
May 08, 2025 at 18:25
Thanks for your reply and your appreciation. For many people, this is quite a boring topic—especially when discussed in such detail. ;D Those older no...
April 22, 2025 at 10:58
@"RogueAI" Good question. In my perspective, I distinguish between two forms of knowledge: static and dynamic. Static knowledge is timeless and unchan...
April 05, 2025 at 19:19
I’m curious… What do you think? I hope it’s not too bad to read. ;D
April 05, 2025 at 16:35
JTB (Justified True Belief) is both insufficient and excessive to describe the kind of knowledge I’m referring to. On one hand, JTB is too rigid to ac...
April 05, 2025 at 09:48
JTB has to evolve to a more flexible as definition as data can change which it doesnt account for. It has to account for time and change - we use it o...
April 03, 2025 at 05:59
Despite popular opinion we do not need Gettier cases to demonstrate that JTB is insufficient for knowledge. Here a small explanation of what the terms...
April 02, 2025 at 05:16
I will answer the question above tomorrow. I otherwise get less then 4 hours of sleep. I know what you mean but the problem with JTB is time and chang...
April 02, 2025 at 00:13
Time in the Car Case: T1: At the moment Smith forms his belief, he is justified in thinking that “Either Jones owns a Ford or Brown is in Barcelona” i...
April 01, 2025 at 23:57
Since these are statements about future events, they do not constitute knowledge but rather speculation (credence), and the result is not knowledge ei...
April 01, 2025 at 12:37
@“creativesoul” I’ll respond in more depth later—time is a bit scarce right now, but I will get back to you. @“Metaphysician Undercover” @“Ludwig V” D...
March 31, 2025 at 05:22
@creativesoul It is not a rhetorical or semantic problem. If your reliable boss says to you that a person with brown hairs, in this room will get a hi...
March 30, 2025 at 14:09
The Problem is not only present "if it's true". The biggest problem is the "if" itself: contingency.
March 30, 2025 at 13:24
@"creativesoul" If Gettier cases are interpreted as justified false beliefs rather than justified true beliefs, this supports — rather than undermines...
March 30, 2025 at 12:41
@"creativesoul" Formally, yes — Gettier cases do fulfill the traditional criteria of JTB, and this is precisely why they are epistemologically disrupt...
March 30, 2025 at 12:06
The statement is a misinterpretation because it overlooks key concepts of the JTC model. While it concedes that Gettier cases may involve true belief,...
March 30, 2025 at 11:54
I accept your suggestion—if indeed there is a way back to actual arguments—and I welcome it. Please take another careful look at what the Gettier prob...
March 30, 2025 at 11:39
@"creativesoul" I see a shattered ego, but no stable argument. It’s a pity you lack the integrity to present counterarguments rigorously. If you were ...
March 30, 2025 at 08:01
Absolutely.. ad astra per aspera.. or as a gang of philosophers once said... "step by step uhh baby": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay6GjmiJTPM "“ i...
March 29, 2025 at 00:24
I think it’s a necessity of structure itself — the nature of nature, its underlying architecture. Like how perception structures thinking through diff...
March 28, 2025 at 19:37
lol
March 28, 2025 at 18:00
In DK Intuition is a important component for evaluating credences as the lottery Problem demonstrates. @"AmadeusD" @"T clark" Within the framework of ...
March 28, 2025 at 16:46
Thank you, @“Janus”. :) The thing is that JTB is still necessary; but with variations. The modern discourse is misled. What needs to be addressed is t...
March 28, 2025 at 09:01
@"Ludwig V" My wording was chosen deliberately and corresponds precisely to the intended meaning. Had I meant to say “identical,” “equivalent,” or int...
March 28, 2025 at 00:16
Changeability is a spectrum. Some things—like 2 + 2 = 4 or the concept of “1”—are unchanging. Others transform so quickly that we barely notice them: ...
March 27, 2025 at 06:32
@"creativesoul" One example is the claim that "change is irrelevant for JTB," while arguing for a monistic definition of knowledge and disregarding th...
March 26, 2025 at 23:02
@"creativesoul" I can readily accept that we don’t share the same conviction. I don’t find your argument convincing, and it’s perfectly fine with me i...
March 26, 2025 at 22:23
@"JuanZu" Your answer avoids the core of both questions by replacing epistemological accountability with vague functional metaphors. If transcription ...
March 26, 2025 at 13:30
@"javra" We cannot know that the sun will rise tomorrow — even if it seems rational to believe so. The first major reason is the classic problem of in...
March 26, 2025 at 07:25
Nope. Every (pseudo-)“knowledge” claim in the real world is problematic. Gettier cases are a direct counterexample to this thesis: the boss’s decision...
March 26, 2025 at 01:05
I have questions : - You propose transcription as an alternative to representation – but how can a transcription be true or false if it explicitly rej...
March 25, 2025 at 17:07
Your position turns classical monarchy into a proto-socialist employer-state—with the twist that it is still autocratic in form. The idea that the sta...
March 24, 2025 at 21:32
@"Metaphysician Undercover" I really enjoy writing with you. I’ll definitely take a closer look at the light cone principle; it sounds very interestin...
March 24, 2025 at 14:54
"Why is there something... rather than nothing...” Good question.
March 24, 2025 at 10:11
@"creativesoul" When belief is detached from the believer and treated purely as a proposition, the truthmaker relation shifts. The truthmaker is no lo...
March 24, 2025 at 07:43