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Confusing ideas and epistemology with ontology. How novel. :roll:
May 30, 2019 at 13:11
Yeah, I don't see how this is arguable, really. You could just point to the fact that cells divide to become two cells with all of the features that o...
May 30, 2019 at 13:06
Yeah, after reading a bit about and by Kastrup yesterday, I got the impression that it's a wide-ranging Copenhagen interpretation, half-motivated by K...
May 29, 2019 at 12:01
Well, you can better identify what folks are doing, how they're doing it and indications of the sorts of things they can probably do, at least.
May 29, 2019 at 11:27
Even with technical aspects, there still are no factual/human-independent valuations. It still comes down to what people like/dislike, and it's still ...
May 29, 2019 at 10:31
Okay, but my comment wasn't in the vein of "what words imply corresponds to what is." So I'm not sure what that has to do with my comment.
May 29, 2019 at 09:26
What does that have to do with my comment about what words imply?
May 29, 2019 at 09:19
Doesn't that depend on how an individual is thinking about the term?
May 29, 2019 at 09:12
Sure. So what you'd have to do is show some sort of evidence for there being a fact that one possibility is better or worse than another. (Anything yo...
May 29, 2019 at 09:04
First, if you read what I just wrote, I obviously believe there can be experts in general. It's just that you can't be an expert on value judgments, b...
May 29, 2019 at 08:57
The point is that in order to be an expert at x, it has to be possible to get claims about x right or wrong. So, for example, you can't be an expert o...
May 29, 2019 at 08:34
Yes to the first question, and no, it's not unethical in my view. What's unethical in my view is to be an apologist for bullshit, for gobbledygook. If...
May 28, 2019 at 22:08
Evidence for it would have to be evidence of valuations occurring independently of any person, any person's judgment, proclamation, etc.
May 28, 2019 at 19:04
No. I'm not saying it's arbitrary (presumably you mean that in the sense of "random.") I'm saying that the value of football players to a club is not ...
May 28, 2019 at 16:34
The value of the judgments made is subjective/it's something that each individual determines for him/herself based on highly variable criteria. So I w...
May 28, 2019 at 16:06
You can't be more or less an expert in a field where there aren't facts to get right or wrong. So one can't be more of an expert than another when it ...
May 28, 2019 at 15:54
"To some physicists, this indicates that all the matter, with its solidity and concreteness, is an illusion that only the mathematical apparatus they ...
May 28, 2019 at 14:45
Yeah, right after I stopped to ask I saw that he got more into the stuff you were talking about. First, leading up to that, when he says, "Religious b...
May 28, 2019 at 14:37
Also, "information" would need to be defined if we're making this sort of claim about it, because it's rather ambiguous.
May 28, 2019 at 14:01
As always, my first question is, "Wait--why would we believe this?" We can make up fantasies all day long. Why would we believe any of them?
May 28, 2019 at 13:59
Is there a particular part of this lecture that you'd say hones in on what you want to focus on in this thread? I'm just asking because I'm 15 minutes...
May 28, 2019 at 13:47
It's certainly believed by me that it's neither a fact nor true that there are things we ought/ought not believe. I have a disposition that there are ...
May 28, 2019 at 12:09
You didn't have to use the word "aware" to be saying that. Nothing anthropomorphic about it by the way. Frogs have senses, brains, etc.
May 27, 2019 at 21:11
I don't believe there's any way to know what frogs aren't aware of.
May 27, 2019 at 21:01
Oy vey
May 27, 2019 at 20:54
If it means something, it's not true that it means nothing, right?
May 27, 2019 at 20:36
Isn't that contradictory? To say it doesn't mean anything and then turn around and say what it meams?
May 27, 2019 at 19:48
I explained that, but I'll do it again, one step at a time. Start with the word "cat." Do you understand how the word "cat" can correspond with a cat?
May 27, 2019 at 19:44
Just start with this. You claimed that someone was saying or something implied the following: "something that 'is the case' neither is nor is not the ...
May 27, 2019 at 19:00
You could have just gone, "I'm a Rorty fan. Let's casually discuss some of his ideas. Go!" That might have worked better.
May 27, 2019 at 18:45
The idea is rather that the values are a fact, somehow as a necessary upshot of facts in general. How that's supposed to work is left completely unatt...
May 27, 2019 at 18:42
Where is someone saying that something be a fact, or being the case, where the latter is another way of saying "is the case," isn't a fact or isn't th...
May 27, 2019 at 18:40
We're not saying that the cat being on the mat is not the case. "Is the case" is another way of saying "is a fact." It's not another way of saying "is...
May 27, 2019 at 18:30
Cool. I hadn't noticed any changes. The important thing is that we get the right info to anyone trying to understand this stuff.
May 27, 2019 at 18:28
That's what I said at the start though. Validity obtains when it's impossible for premises to be true and(/or--I add or for reasons I detailed in my f...
May 27, 2019 at 18:26
The fact is neither true nor false. A proposition about the fact is true or false. Propositions are the sorts of things you say, such as "The cat is s...
May 27, 2019 at 18:18
Sure, so here are some things I found very quickly online for you. https://www.uta.edu/philosophy/faculty/burgess-jackson/Technical%20Validity.pdf Tha...
May 27, 2019 at 18:15
Yes, the matching is what's true (on correspondence theory). The matching is a property of proposition. In other words, the proposition matches the fa...
May 27, 2019 at 18:01
You're giving misinformation. I don't know why. It's not even clear at this point if you agree that traditionally (that is, not in relevance logics, w...
May 27, 2019 at 17:56
That was anything but clear. It's very simple. Contradictory premises are sufficient for a valid argument (in non-relevance logics) due to the definit...
May 27, 2019 at 17:41
On correspondence theory, "The cat is on the mat" (a proposition, which we're denoting by putting it in quotation marks) matches the cat being on the ...
May 27, 2019 at 17:38
Because what it refers to to be "true" is that the proposition corresponds to a fact. In other words, it "matches" the fact. The fact itself wouldn't ...
May 27, 2019 at 16:07
It's as if you didn't read or couldn't comprehend what I wrote. You are giving misinformation if you're saying that under traditional (NOT relevance-l...
May 27, 2019 at 16:04
Re "things" it depends on how you're using that term. Some people use it "technically" where they seem to use it as more or less a synonym for "object...
May 27, 2019 at 15:45
What I was curious about was whether you're not interested in (learning (about)) philosophy. You've already demonstrated that you're not going to list...
May 27, 2019 at 15:33
All you're doing here is telling me why you couldn't care less about the convention in philosophy and the sciences. Which is why I asked if you're not...
May 27, 2019 at 15:26
You're giving misinformation here. You're favoring a relevance logic interpretation, which is fine (I favor that, too), but that's a far more recent i...
May 27, 2019 at 15:23
I'm asking because there are good reasons, well-accepted, with long philosophical arguments behind them, why "fact" and "truth" are used as they are i...
May 27, 2019 at 13:57
Which has what to do with my question?
May 27, 2019 at 13:51
Aren't you on this site because you're interested in philosophy?
May 27, 2019 at 13:50