Perhaps we might say Gettier's puzzles are neutral with respect to the distinction. They seem directly concerned with knowing-that, not knowing-how. N...
It's been a while since I've looked at that dialogue. In my recollection, it's a conversation about knowledge, not certainty, though of course I might...
(p V ~p) is mere tautology. (p V ~p) is true, whether or not p. probably p is an informative and definitive claim. probably p can serve as a reasonabl...
I've read something similar from Searle, about consciousness vanishing while we're asleep. But do we really have definitive empirical evidence that co...
It often seems professional epistemologists count it their duty to construct and assault straw men. Consider their collective abuse of the moldy old s...
According to your calculus, does (p(99%) V ~p(1%)) imply ((p V q)99%)? Or how are your probabilistic weightings related to propositional logic? How do...
Exactly. So far as I can see, it's best way to align this family of terms to reflect ordinary usage and to clean up the epistemologist's shop. We can ...
What I'm suggesting is that (p AND (IF p THEN (p V q)) is already enough to give a truth condition for (p V q). Or in other words: (p V q) is true if ...
This bit I can agree with: In Gettier's cases, Smith believes that p but does not know that p, because p is in fact and unbeknownst to Smith, false. T...
Yes, this seems like another example. On the basis of his strong evidence that Jones owns a Ford, Smith might feel the bet's practically a sure thing....
Agreed, at least for the sake of argument. Agreed, in that Smith's belief is not an isolated "belief in a disjunction", but has an epistemic structure...
I'm not aware of having said that. I do say that "(p V q)" can and should have a place in an adequate representation of Smith's belief. That's not the...
The first problem that comes to mind is that (p2) can fill in the blank at (p3), which makes (p3) redundant. (p V q) is true if p. All that remains is...
So far as I can see, Gettier problems don't give us reason to reject the conception of knowledge as justified true belief, they only present eccentric...
Gettier gives two special cases in which a justified true belief arguably does not count as knowledge, due to inadequate fit between the justification...
It's not clear to me what position you take yourself to be arguing against or what position you take yourself to be defending, nor how your position i...
I hope it's clear from my preceding remarks that I agree: (p V q) is not an adequate representation of Smith's belief in the case we began by consider...
Do you mean to say that (g)-(i) are exclusive disjunctions, and that each of these exclusive disjunctions is entailed by (f)? That just seems wrong. F...
The problem of evil begins from the assumption that God is benevolent, omniscient and omnipotent: Assuming that God is so, how is it possible that evi...
Do you agree, in particular, with the distinction I made between one respect in which love is "in experience", and another respect in which love is "o...
I don't see any contradiction generally entailed by one's participation in a society, institution, or process of which one is critical and which one a...
Don't we experience love? To say that we do, is not to "reduce" love to something like a "mere appearance" with no other place in the world apart from...
It's hard for me to deny that my life is the most important thing in my life. For it seems that without my life, I'd lose everything else that I have,...
I can't think of any good reason to suppose that love belongs to the world in any way at all, apart from its appearance in creatures like us, as part ...
What's necessary to well-being is performance of right action and avoidance of wrong action. I'm not sure that pain and suffering are absolutely neces...
I'm strongly inclined to agree. The only thing that makes a duty or obligation binding as such is the agent's agreement that he has the duty or obliga...
Slavery is in the first place a word we use to name a special social status, for instance as defined by law. By United States law, by Roman law, by Sh...
What is a "duty"? One might say it's an agent's duty to do what seems right, or what seems best, or what seems most appropriate... to the agent in eac...
Do you mean to suggest there is one special sort of feeling that always proceeds your utterances? I'm not sure I've encountered that sort of thing in ...
It seems there are various ways of speaking, and various ways of interpreting speech, and various purposes for speech and for interpretation. On what ...
You might follow your own advice, and consider the audience here. This is not a classroom, this is a forum for free and open philosophical exchange. T...
It marks an important turn. A confused turn in a confused dialogue the purpose of which, it seems, is not to present finished doctrine but to stimulat...
To say something is never an object of perception is not necessarily the same as to say it never appears to us in any way. For instance, I'll say I do...
I am, you are, it is. Doesn't the grammar support my sentience-neutral use of the term "being"? It's not only sentient beings that be. Not in English,...
That's a more enduring tension than the war I had in mind. A lot depends on how we unpack the term "traditional basis". If the basis was religious doc...
I am arguing that mathematics can be used in moral reasoning. I'm not sure that's the same as arguing that math "can be used to make moral judgments"....
You've said this many times, but so far as I can tell, you haven't given any reasons to warrant the claim. Worries that some people might use math inc...
I'm not sure what this means. Is math "central" to the Sun, or is it central to our perception of the Sun, or is it central to a scientific understand...
Whenever you feel ready. Think of the way a toddler starts singing and dancing, and what kind of progress it can make in proportion to time on task, e...
It may be I'm unacquainted with your idiom. What is "necessary reasoning"? What sort of necessary reasoning is commonly associated with quantity? What...
If the person drawing conclusions is careful to distinguish the measurements and calculations on the one hand, from assumptions and inferences about w...
It seems we may be speaking at cross purposes. I'm not sure why you keep referring to the OP as if it were an authoritative source on the use of words...
Is that technique similar to the "third use of etymology" I mentioned? I meant to allude to the way that some authors, including Nietzsche and Heidegg...
Extramusical factors play a powerful role in determining the course of development of musical taste. Lyrics arguably contribute an extramusical dimens...
Here again it seems you and I use some of the same words quite differently. It may take more careful work to sort out the meaning of our usages and as...
Does transcendental reasoning demonstrate that it must be an "impulse" that posits not-self and self? And how do the relevant transcendental arguments...
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