I think we're having a fine discussion. Why do you think we need to be certain of anything in order to have a discussion? Usually in discussion I find...
I don't know, I really don't play chess and I'm only vaguely familiar with it. I'm not really into games. I had bad experiences as a child, finding ou...
Yes, we assume that there are "hinge-propositions". The point I am making, is that as we are "delving into their nature", it becomes more and more evi...
You can't say that the authoritarian tendencies didn't come out in the TV show. And, I'm very sure they were quite evident to most everyone who knew h...
So why would anyone insist that hinge propositions are indubitable? They are not certainties, and they are only accepted if one feels obliged to do so...
A given is something taken for granted. But it's not necessary to take it for granted, one may decline it, just like a proposition may be declined, an...
It's not a question of who is forcing the act, it's a matter of who is acting, who's act it is. That's why motive and intention are irrelevant. Aqusti...
I disagree that these "non-propositional commitments" are necessarily certainties. It is just as likely that an individual is committed to an attitude...
Right, the law recognizes intent. But there is nothing to indicate that when a person acts under duress the act is not the person's act. That is contr...
You continue with your faulty logic. You argue "if an action is not freely chosen, it is not mine, in a very important sense of the term". But you hav...
Doubt is not knowing, so it's not a case of knowing that something isn't quite right, I'd say it's more like an intuition. Intuition is not a knowledg...
Doubt is not only the result of failed prediction. Whenever something doesn't seem quite right, there is cause for doubt. So doubt precedes action in ...
Thanks, I appreciate the respect. You've now resorted to standard determinism. If you believe in determinism, and think that you are not responsible f...
Why must skepticism be refuted? If it is an essential aspect of epistemology then respect it as such. Trying to sweep it under the carpet, or treating...
No, it's an illusion of distinction. That I freely choose to have something in no way provides any real means for classifying whether that thing is mi...
OK, so this would be a process of understanding one's own conscious mind, self-reflection. Further, you seem to articulate that one can understand a r...
As I said, I find your position here to be contradictory nonsense. You claim some of your thoughts are "in one sense mine", and in another sense "not ...
I've explained this to you already in this thread, but I'll explain it again. To doubt is to request justification. Knowledge requires justification. ...
Like I said, in my daily endeavours I accept such things without a doubt. But since we're discussing fundamental principles of epistemology here, I se...
This is nonsense, and contradictory. "I have intrusive thoughts" implies necessarily, through the use of "I have", that the thoughts are yours. To go ...
Right, this confirms what I said. Wittgenstein claims at 194 that objective certainty is when the possibility of mistake has been logically excluded. ...
Though it was not a formalized concept at his time Aristotle clearly believed in free will, as is evident from his discussion of the potential for fut...
This is not correct. "4" must necessarily refer to one unit. Each of the numerals, "2", "3", etc., refer to individual units. If "4" referred to four ...
That's not true though. We cannot produce a mathematical model of the universe which is independent from perspective. This is one of the key things th...
I think we understand each other sufficiently, and maybe agree on some key points enough, that I could probably attempt another approach to the topic ...
He wouldn't, but that's exactly what doubt is, being unsure. In general practise, I do not doubt "2+2=4", I use these mathematical principles all the ...
No, the point I made is that the way that the world is, is completely dependent on one's temporal perspective. Without a subject, an observer, there i...
I don't know about that. It may not be wise to attempt with the conscious mind to understand what the subconscious is doing. This puzzle might be impo...
The issue might be best understood from a temporal perspective. Consider that the human being is endowed with a very particular temporal perspective. ...
Why would you say that doubting the meaning of something is not a sensible form of doubt?. I think not understanding the meaning is the basis of all d...
I really can't understand this claim. Suppose that a person is overcome with a severe illness causing delusion, and hallucinations, with the appearanc...
The question I think is what attracts one's attention. The way you ask the question, the issue of why do you want to think about this particular probl...
You expressed a complete misunderstanding of what I said, and then went off to criticise that misunderstanding. What I 've been trying to tell you ove...
That's a good way of stating the issue with doubt. Because of #2, the fact that doubt is relative to the particular individual, in the particular situ...
We all think, thinking is not an illness. What is "behind the thinking that causes it" is the person's interests. We all have interests, and we all th...
I think that such a person has an illness which makes him feel like there is a conspiracy against him. The rumination itself is not the problem, it is...
Oh, I see that you insist on using "doubt" differently than me. You want to restrict "doubt" such that it would only be used if you thought something ...
Your numbers are totally arbitrary. If you use "doubt" in this way, you have no clear division as to what probability ought to be doubted, and what pr...
Yeah, that's how we've been discussing doubt, in relation to certainty, in the sense of "it is certain". "It is likely" has a different meaning from "...
This would exclude anyone from buying a lottery ticket. And that's why Wittgenstein's argument, that doubt can be excluded if it is unreasonable, is i...
I don't claim to be a doctor on this matter. You, not I, seem to think that there is a clear distinction between anxiety of the healthy type, and anxi...
You just keep asserting, but I have justification. The possibility of mistake indicates that the belief may be wrong, and if the belief may be wrong, ...
Looks like a very twisted description of rumination. Rumination is not repetitive in the negative sense described, as if the exact same thing is gone ...
Here: My OED defines ruminate as "meditate, ponder". And you insist that meditation is so good, and rumination is so bad. How do you spin "rumination"...
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