Metaphysician Undercover

I know truth is not justification, and I'm far from claiming that it is. We've been through this already. I am just pointing out that one cannot belie...

If you do not believe that the person is guilty, and you believe that the person has been framed, how can you also believe that it is justified to bel...

It wouldn't be information at all if it were unpatterned or unstructured. That's the problem with this theoretical structure, the concept, "informatio...

I don't see how it could be the case that one could believe that a belief is false, yet also have reason to believe in it. Believing it to be false wo...

Right, and this association is made through the constant called the speed of light. That is why "length contraction" is such a counter-intuitive conce...

Does your definition of justification allow that an individual can believe that a particular belief is both justified and false at the same time?

I've demonstrated how the Gettier problem described in the op is just a deception. What more do you want?

This is pointless.

How is a guess sound?

I thought we were working on the assumption of knowledge as JTB?

I don't think it's the same because breaking the glass is a matter of breaking down a complex structure, while creativity produces complex structures....

As implied earlier, as sound.

Try this. Gettier is describing the situation. From his description, Smith was never justified. Gettier lies when he says Smith was justified.

I don't know, spell it out.

Yes, now look at the op. We must disallow 1). Gettier cannot say that (b) is justified, all he can say is that (b) was justified.

I suppose there is an issue of what differentiates a "rearrangement of parts' from a "creation of new parts". If you are one to insist that everything...

No, when the belief turns out to be false it's no longer justified. The issue is whether you believe your argument to be unsound or not, so your examp...

No, what I am saying is that it is impossible to believe that X is false and also believe that X is justified. I am not saying anything about whether ...

No, I'm saying that you cannot honestly claim that you belief a specific belief to be both false and justified. If you belief that it is false, this d...

If the entity is composed of parts, then the activity which it is involved in may be an activity of the eternal parts. The activity of the entity is u...

An invalid attempt at justification is not justification. If it is not valid then is doesn't qualify as a justification. X is not justified if the cla...

It cannot qualify as a justification if the belief which supposedly justifies is known to be false. Otherwise we could justify all sorts of irrational...

The point is, that no one can truthfully say both, that (a) is a false belief, and that (b) being a conclusion derived from the false belief (a), is j...

I don't see the logic here. You are claiming that a discrete entity cannot be divided. I don't see your principle to support this claim. A unity is a ...

I don't see this at all. All your examples are in the form of "You see that I...", or "I see that you..." None of this relates to "I believe both that...

I wouldn't go so far as to say that "space" is simply a backdrop for Newton because I think he looked at space in different ways, depending on the pur...

You're changing the subject. What we were talking about is a hypothetical situation when the subject believes that X is false. and also believes that ...

Try looking at it this way PA. To say "X is justified" is strong evidence that one believes X. To say "X is not justified" is strong evidence that one...

Do you not believe in "change"? For me, the concept of change allows that something new comes from the old. A butterfly is something completely new, d...

I don't see how one could "believe that P" without being "psychologically convinced that P". Aren't believing and being psychologically convinced the ...

It's not the "I" which is self-determined, but the order is self-determined by the I. Have you never thought that the reason you are an orderly person...

Right, so how would you account for the "free won't", in a materialist way? Suppose, for example, a chain of efficient causes, one action brings about...

But the disorder is not in the "I", which is the self-determined "order", it surrounds the "I". The delusion is in thinking that the I is the centre o...

I understand, but the point is this. You have posited unchanging discrete moments of reality, with temporal duration. You have also posited other "for...

Let me explore this "mystical singularity", will you? Consider the word "original". Something original, as you use the word, is something new, created...

Inapt? You said "if reality consists in discrete durational moments within which no change occurs, there may or may not be forces at work which are no...

So how would disorder have a centre?

Aren't "nexus" and "disorder" mutually exclusive, making this statement contradictory?

Dreaming is a disorder? I thought it was completely normal and necessary.

So these forces are not part of reality then? If they are real forces, then it is false to say that reality consists of those discrete unchanging mome...

No, I don't conflate truth and justification. I state the simple fact that believing X to be true is a necessary condition of believing X is justified...

I agree that all of the stories enter through the senses, but don't you think that there is a part of consciousness which is not a story? What about i...

Of course, to say one is "mistaken" (wrong) in one's actions is to say that the actions are not justified. To argue otherwise would be irrational. The...

I'm quite sure there's contradiction here. If "one frame gives rise to the next", then it is impossible by way of contradiction, that there are forces...

Then we just go back to the prior problem. We have to account for the production of the frames, and the mechanism which displays them. When I said thi...

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Where's the problem? What the belief is based upon, is the justification for that belief. It has been stipulated that what the belief is based upon is...

You call that a nutshell? You lost my attention after about four sentences - pretty long sentences at that. Look at the op. Conclusion b is drawn from...

It's unusual to get such agreement at TPF, especially since most would consider my ideas to be rather unconventional. There is a matter of distinguish...

How would this differ from instinct, other than the fact that we commonly doubt our instincts, and there is an unsubstantiated claim that "hinge-propo...