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I don't have any reservations about achieving absolutely correct knowledge. The inherent error was more of a red herring; which arguably worked. Yes, ...
July 21, 2021 at 15:37
Back in the olden days they called that one "marriage". I recommend go ahead getting that first one out of the way. 4 years max
July 21, 2021 at 03:06
Precisely, the error in this context is a known error. It is like you say incorporated into our knowledge along with the rest of the information. Beca...
July 21, 2021 at 01:02
Granted, if we were having a discussion on measurement there is a more nuanced position that would be appropriate. I was attempting to demonstrate tha...
July 20, 2021 at 20:14
Every measurement that has ever been taken since the beginning of measuring things has inherent error. If we can know things imperfectly, then it foll...
July 20, 2021 at 14:51
I don't think that's an accurate use of "might"; the number of times those ideas have not been falsified suggest they are unlikely to be an example of...
July 20, 2021 at 03:59
I acknowledge your example is linguistically coherent, but generally we talk about justifying from a deductive point of view. What you are describing ...
July 19, 2021 at 22:04
Technically, you end up with an infinite regress always trying to justify the thing that justified. While we're at it. Knowledge can exist in a book w...
July 19, 2021 at 14:57
Knowledge is the product of humans All human products are subject to human error Knowledge is subject to human error Anything subject to error contain...
July 19, 2021 at 12:12
I'd conjecture it's the result of a flawed assumption that foundationalism is a workable model for reality. If knowledge was actually built from the g...
July 19, 2021 at 06:00
Excellent assertion. But, the particular direction of the extremist lunatics has been influenced. I don't dispute they can and will do bizarre things ...
July 18, 2021 at 18:28
It's the answer to the variance in the groups. Mainstream reports of it in the news over the last couple days. The NY times did a pretty good document...
July 18, 2021 at 17:12
Any particular area you wanted to focus criticism on? I can do the collective - covert fascism- but people get label adverse. The overarching notion t...
July 18, 2021 at 17:04
Yeah, I wasn't thrilled about enduring the typical immune response from the second dose, but nothing happened. Same reason I dodged the flu shot for y...
July 18, 2021 at 15:50
You've got a bit of vaccine hesitancy, anti-vax just cause, and the wingnuts that think they are being microchipped. I'm initially sympathetic to a de...
July 18, 2021 at 14:24
Pretty sure this is one of the most misunderstood talking points regarding Kant. Kant wouldn't suggest you have a duty to honesty with a murderer. The...
July 18, 2021 at 13:59
You said executive orders; which is a thing. Yes, I agree the OP well outside of the boundaries of reality, but that's where many stand at the moment....
July 18, 2021 at 12:53
The link provided details the police powers reserved for the state and they include measures that restrict otherwise guaranteed rights. Which is why m...
July 18, 2021 at 12:37
Under this system you can know true things and mislabel false things as known. But, nothing mislabeled is known; only incorrectly claimed to be known....
July 18, 2021 at 12:18
Do it. Where's a .gov link that supports the existence of anything you mentioned. Executive actions are part of the public record.
July 17, 2021 at 18:23
No, it becomes a political issue when the idiot president pretends it doesn't exist cause it makes him look bad. What you are mentioning are called le...
July 17, 2021 at 17:51
Is an approximation knowledge? If its understood to not quite be true, but informative enough to be useful. Can't call it a belief, because it isn't b...
July 17, 2021 at 17:07
Well, we have a special situation where politicians tried to use a public health crisis as a political football. So, now we have a group whose politic...
July 17, 2021 at 16:33
Ok, that's fair, I must have misattributed the context.
July 17, 2021 at 16:23
I don't recall making this strawman argument, so I don't think I'll be defending it. Really, the Feds have only complained publicly, they aren't shutt...
July 17, 2021 at 14:31
You are test driving racist speaking points under false pretense. IF anything I'm reflecting.
July 17, 2021 at 14:05
Police power as defined by Chief Justice Marshall is certainly broad enough to counter the mass dissemination of false information during a pandemic. ...
July 17, 2021 at 13:55
The same document allows for it in cases of public health. If the censorship was effective I wouldn't keep hearing about censorship. Yet, it seems to ...
July 16, 2021 at 23:53
It's surely informative. If I bought a book from you titled knowledge I would anticipate anything I found in it to correspond to the facts, but if you...
July 16, 2021 at 23:15
And the earth goes around the sun, but one of them wasn't always so obvious.
July 16, 2021 at 21:12
The labor market aspect of the free market is still fairly broken in the US. Low wage people can't switch jobs without risking losing their job in the...
July 16, 2021 at 21:08
Feels like an answer you get in church. At the same time there's enough coherence to maintain it; I guess. Knowledge consists only of things I happen ...
July 16, 2021 at 20:56
Do you really not understand or is this just another lazy spitball?
July 16, 2021 at 18:37
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
July 16, 2021 at 17:46
Notice it's a metaphor in a context that doesn't imply relative melanin.
July 16, 2021 at 17:31
How do you know?
July 16, 2021 at 17:28
It is uncontroversial in the context of pure data which this is not. This is a lame attempt at skating through a subtext of implications. It is pleasa...
July 16, 2021 at 17:20
It keeps the definition of knowledge consistent with the JTB model of knowledge. Which is an ideal, like a perfect circle, but useful in teaching and ...
July 16, 2021 at 17:10
The massive Russian disinformation campaign that has targeted the Right to manipulate the country has been more effective than the massive Russian dis...
July 16, 2021 at 05:48
In my car are a lot of fluids. One of them is necessary for the car to run. I suppose it doesn't mean anyone of them is more or less a fluid. I though...
July 16, 2021 at 05:44
Is this in the only known system of modality that isn't an implicit hierarchy?
July 16, 2021 at 05:18
A way to understand the qualification of "necessary" not creating a subcategory of "unnecessary". Or a way that creating the subcategory does not defi...
July 16, 2021 at 04:58
I'd like to make note you quoted the part about not taking a detour and then responded to it with said detour.
July 16, 2021 at 03:41
I think the two are incompatible. One either calls some truths necessary or denies a hierarchy of truth. I'm not sure about. I'd rather not detour fro...
July 16, 2021 at 02:55
It implies a threat which speaks to the emotions in order to propagate the BS that normally precedes it. See Above.
July 16, 2021 at 02:47
It gives it false meaning.
July 16, 2021 at 01:50
Yes, this is an excellent example of an Excellent contribution.
July 16, 2021 at 01:46
Well, there lies my issue. You called a truth necessary and claim not to understand a hierarchy of truth. Things are modeled and labeled true or false...
July 16, 2021 at 01:40
I qualified certainty to mean a public matter so that; Doesn't reduce my position to a matter of personal tastes. So, if it's going to be dismissed, t...
July 16, 2021 at 00:52
Last bit first. We maintain that belief in an absolute truth, should one be discovered, can not be rationally questionable. I believe there are unknow...
July 16, 2021 at 00:18