I'm the one who can truthfully say 'It's mine' when someone asks 'Whose is this debit card I just found at the checkout?' That is, the self exists ess...
In explaining a concept one approach is to look for necessary and sufficient conditions of its application. What is X ('justice' for example)? Let's s...
It is because females can bear children and males cannot. Mothers know who their children are but children may not know who their fathers are. Patriar...
I always wonder which comes first, peace or international co-operation. Do we set up international organisations because we happen to be at peace; or ...
:rofl: Up tails all. I think he is referring to the logical basis of mathematics; a line of thought that culminated in the Hilbert programme. Whom you...
Isn't it just that #3 is false? "If one doesn't know then enquiry is impossible." I don't know where my keys are. But I can look for them. That's a co...
I think that's right. Aristotle addressed the first kind by saying that philosophy (or science) begins with wondering, thaumazein, which I would say r...
From 3. it follows that if you don't know where your house keys are then you can't look for them because you don't know where to look. You could try t...
I mean we investigate the world with an a priori assumption that we will find regularities. When we don't find them, we assume not that the world is i...
When we find an example of physical laws changing then we look for a higher law which both the old and the new observations obey or we revise the old ...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/13547-read-over-your-compositions-and-wherever-you-meet-with-a “Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet wi...
I think of Amartya Sen when I hear that question. Avoiding doing the obviously wrong thing is a start. E.g. we may not be certain whether working for ...
You can't imagine unless you are conscious. But the things you imagine might not be conscious. I can imagine a cup having the quality of roundness, if...
I think there are some insightful and committed atheists right here in this thread and also some theists and we seem to be getting along ok. It's poss...
Some atheists want us to comprehend that it is mere comforting delusion at best and wicked trickery at worst. It's equally easy for them to comprehend...
That's very interesting, Corvus. I think the pre-occupations of theists and atheists tend to be different with regard to faith. For some atheists, the...
Not sure how we can get from 'no perception without a perceiver' to 'to be is to be perceived'. Maybe Jo sees the blackbird; and there would be no see...
It also teaches us that everything Richard Dawkins had to say about the survival of genes trumping the welfare of individuals has been forgotten. A ra...
The experiment teaches us some of the limits to empathy in humans. Empath 1: I want to learn all about human empathy and morality and stuff. Empath 2:...
Yes, and I think faith (religious or other) has as much to do with trust and confidence as with belief. Possibly more. I believe that flying is the sa...
boss i asked a mosquito about its quiet placid enjoyment of the present moment and its tranquillity of mind as celebrated by schopenhauer but he could...
This must be very persuasive to anyone to whom it seems there is no God. But I don't come to believe in God by a leap of faith. I do not need to const...
Though I suppose we can see what happens if Euclid's 5th postulate is treated as false and then discover a whole new area of maths. But.... Well, I do...
We can stipulate negative interest rates or announce a jubilee cancellation of all mortgage debt or cancel the validity of a currency at will. But we ...
I think where philosophy comes in is asking 'does it make sense to suppose these things?' Suppose I get the sack this month - how am I going to pay th...
Let's suppose these things are actually so. Suppose we don't know anything and also we cannot tell the difference between sleeping and waking or betwe...
In AnCapistan, can something that is property also be something that has interests (i.e. it can experience harm or benefit)? If so, then the good peop...
I said you might find Venn diagrams useful because it looked in the OP as if you initially believed 'All dogs are animals' and 'All cats are animals' ...
Yes. You do not need extra definitions. The original definitions are quite sufficient. Dogs are animals. Cats are animals. Cats are not dogs. Those la...
But the conclusion does not follow from the premisses. d->a and c->a does not entail d<->c. All dogs are animals; and all cats are animals; however, n...
A good tool is the Venn diagram. Represent animals by a big circle. Dogs is a smaller circle inside the big circle. Cats is another smaller circle ins...
If metaphysics is causing society's collapse, then things are worse than I thought. Best get busy on those other threads to sort the problems out. Or ...
I think voters have reason to believe if they rely solely on the two premisses and . But these two premisses do not contain all the relevant backgroun...
Bartricks, I'm referring omniscient subject S rather than 'God' because the aspect I'm addressing is about the concepts of omniscience, belief, knowle...
Perhaps the object did go through all that in between space to get to the new position. The dog comes into your room having previously been in the liv...
Suppose your conclusion follows - that ominiscient subject S can hold false beliefs. You have given a justification of your conclusion in the OP and y...
Unfortunately there are people who interfere with my freedom by undermining the authority of the party on whose stable and firm government all our fre...
"Austin sketches a distinction amongst speech act types, between locutionary acts, illocutionary acts, and perlocutionary acts—broadly, the distinctio...
Truth of a proposition is not sufficient for knowledge, as you say. But lack of knowledge of a true proposition is sufficient for non-omniscience. Som...
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