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I did that already. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/1027665 Truth is determined by the model,, The model is a product, imaginary. Un...
November 30, 2025 at 00:49
OK, so truth is defined as within the model, so we haven't gotten to anything to support the assumption of a real, or actual world, or truth by corres...
November 30, 2025 at 00:39
That's right. It's exactly what I pointed out in my post. I don't care what you call it, a "semantic model" if you want. However, if you choose to use...
November 29, 2025 at 23:06
Why would you say that. There's nothing wrong with drinking beer from a huge glass. I can't say I have one quite that big though. But why wouldn't the...
November 29, 2025 at 22:41
In the way that "true" is used in your definition of "possibly", how does "truths we don't know" say anything meaningful? Since truth is relative to t...
November 29, 2025 at 22:30
From the perspective of truth by correspondence, these appears to be incoherent. How can we talk about things being true in more than one world, when ...
November 29, 2025 at 22:21
The only plunger I know of gets used in the toilet. Don't tell me...
November 29, 2025 at 02:50
You have not yet defined "possible" to support this, as I asked. What you are saying here is that "it is possible that we know X" is implied by "we kn...
November 29, 2025 at 02:47
Don't fret. But don't be overconfident, someone may request a recount.
November 29, 2025 at 01:30
That is not the issue. The question is whether at the same time, "We know shit", and "It is possible that we know shit", could both be judge to be tru...
November 29, 2025 at 01:23
Check this: President Donald Trump said Friday that he will be pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who in 2024 was convicted f...
November 29, 2025 at 00:32
In the fridge, a head of cabbage will keep from the fall until the spring. It's incredible, I don't know how it does it. Sauerkraut may be your best o...
November 28, 2025 at 14:32
Look at the temporality of your statements; "it might have been that we did not know stuff", refers to past time. All three of the propositions refer ...
November 28, 2025 at 13:56
I don't see how any of your free floating quotes from Aristotle are relevant, because you and I are discussing epistemic possibility, and your quotes ...
November 28, 2025 at 03:22
Another fine example of sophistic abuse of language. The correct statement would be ... if we know that p, it is not possible that we know that p is p...
November 27, 2025 at 14:26
You tend to ignore mentions, so I've reverted to reverse psychology. It seems to be working. Yes, I assumed that was the perspective you were taking f...
November 27, 2025 at 00:59
I see you're still having difficulty understanding. Either that or you've retreated into some form of denial. So, let me lay it out very succinctly. T...
November 27, 2025 at 00:46
That's exactly right. "Knowable" excludes "known" because knowable allows for "not-known". Every proposition which I know, is actually known, that's w...
November 26, 2025 at 23:22
It is very obvious that the difference between actual and possible indicates that if p is knowable (possible to be known), then p is not known. Conver...
November 26, 2025 at 22:04
You obviously didn't address what I wrote. And, it appears like you didn't even attempt to understand what I wrote. Despite pretending to consider wha...
November 26, 2025 at 21:35
@"Sirius" Here's an illustration to demonstrate what I'm talking about. Suppose we take a simple proposition P, and say that it is possible. We theref...
November 26, 2025 at 14:14
After years of explaining very similar issues to Banno, Banno simply chooses to ignore, rejecting Aristotelian bullshit. As you accurately point out, ...
November 26, 2025 at 13:30
Two men, two goals, same means, kill two birds with one stone.
November 26, 2025 at 12:41
You don't recognize how Trump is obsessed with oil? "Drill, baby, drill." And, "We will export American energy all over the world." In Trump's mind, o...
November 26, 2025 at 02:59
Trump wants more oil.
November 26, 2025 at 01:21
What's smashed potatoes? Do they take a hammer to the potatoes before cooking them?
November 25, 2025 at 22:42
Good one. Keep providing the wings, and I'll keep sucking the sauce.
November 25, 2025 at 13:58
That's somewhat incomplete. Don't forget chicken wings. Chicken wings went from being the cheapest meat on the bird, (you practically had to give them...
November 25, 2025 at 13:12
Go ahead, laughing is good. You know, when Trump first jumped in, to run for president 10 years ago, we thought it was such a big joke, and laughed so...
November 25, 2025 at 01:54
Perhaps, by denying the reality of the unity which is the prerequisite presupposition for "the world", I allow that there is a very real separation be...
November 25, 2025 at 01:49
I'd say he's well above average in his interpretation of Aristotle. Relative to the way that I understand Aristotle though, I think that he doesn't qu...
November 25, 2025 at 01:42
Right, therefore intention is implied. Is that difficult to understand? I would make the opposite conclusion, The conscious mind, along with the purpo...
November 24, 2025 at 12:39
Kill them then?
November 24, 2025 at 03:00
I made it through the majority of the lectures. There is very good background material here. He develops the concept of mediation, which he claims is ...
November 24, 2025 at 02:59
And how do we get evil people to do good things?
November 24, 2025 at 02:44
Of course, one must decide which words to use. Don't you agree?
November 24, 2025 at 02:43
Domestic and social harmony: "And did we tell you the name of the game, boy? We call it riding the gravy train" Some notes in the harmony are a little...
November 24, 2025 at 02:41
I do not understand how you can make this division, the separation between "the human acting in history", and, "In nature/human nature". Isn't it the ...
November 24, 2025 at 02:28
I see that misuse often produces rewards, like in the examples I mentioned, of trendsetters and influencers.
November 24, 2025 at 01:04
What do you mean? I don't understand this. If judging itself is inherent, then we have to account for this or else our assumption of what is natural i...
November 24, 2025 at 01:01
But isn't judging inherent within or nature? It's just what we do, we judge all sorts of things. Are you saying that we have a natural tendency to jud...
November 23, 2025 at 22:13
I'm trying to make sense of this. Are you suggesting that "good" existed before "evil"?
November 23, 2025 at 20:39
Further evidence that AI is just pretence. But it seems capable of fooling you.
November 23, 2025 at 14:38
I don't think you're getting the point J. Most likely, you could keep on saying this, and never get "institutionalized". And, people very often get in...
November 23, 2025 at 14:29
I look at this perspective as very problematic. "Purpose" is usually defined by "intention", and "intention" is defined by "a goal", or "aim". This im...
November 23, 2025 at 14:24
The probability of that is extremely low. The vast majority of people speeding would have no consequences. And even if not speeding, one could still d...
November 23, 2025 at 03:26
I don't see that there are any "stern consequences" in the case of ordinary language. It's just like in my example of the speed signs, where there is ...
November 22, 2025 at 21:49
You liken the lichen, javi? Lichen is actually an extremely interesting form of composite organism. "Composite organism" is a strange concept in itsel...
November 22, 2025 at 15:06
What evolutionary theory provides in relation to intent, in my opinion, is a better understanding of how intent underlies all living beings, and how c...
November 22, 2025 at 14:42
I don't see how ordinary language could be misused, because the nature of "ordinary language" is that there are no regulations to distinguish between ...
November 22, 2025 at 03:17