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Cheshire

['Member']Joined: September 02, 2018 at 15:58Last active: February 07, 2026 at 17:057 discussions1083 comments

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I use philosophy like a runaway truck ramp. When the brakes fall off I plow through here until the system resets. If you are going to go a little off; then might as well learn a thing or two in the process.

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Yes, often times I find I could have done otherwise. It's necessary for pattern recognition and adjustment. Or not. I'm often under the infuence of sm...
November 15, 2025 at 15:58
It works just fine if we drop a few needless assumptions. That simply meeting a technical version of something believed being justified could be mista...
May 13, 2025 at 01:03
This is my entire point. All of these examples fail to rise to something accepted into a functional system that would be called "knowledge". All of th...
May 11, 2025 at 23:38
Well, then this is excellent news. If the broken clock is a stand-in for a real world scenario we could examine one of those? Because scientific justi...
May 11, 2025 at 21:23
I see it as a problem in defining knowledge in a generalized way. Nothing paradoxical going on in the rational application of what is being said. One ...
May 11, 2025 at 12:53
I'm not sure anyone's really arguing that knowledge implies certainty of traffic conditions. You know which way has been statisically faster I imagine...
May 10, 2025 at 18:38
What's real is whatever hazards Bayesian updating and persists.
May 10, 2025 at 00:03
Seems to me Gettier simply remarked that we defined knowledge and left out a temporal dimension. And noticed people are wrong a lot for how perfect kn...
May 09, 2025 at 22:59
Pretty much the observation I've come to recognize. There's a distinct lack of disagreement between people and what their god would have them do. It s...
November 17, 2024 at 02:55
Deeply held beliefs about the sanctity of a factory labor supply?
November 03, 2024 at 21:00
Right, if set theory shave's itself sort of thing.
November 02, 2024 at 22:52
None. I thought that was the result of his numbering system for mathematical proofs. The Godel numbers, lead to a conclusion that you can't in fact pr...
November 02, 2024 at 15:09
I wouldn't put it that well, but yes, that's essentially what I'm saying. Perhaps not start with our imagination.
October 31, 2024 at 22:53
Yes, but not in a tactical sense. Didn't realize it was a point of contention.
October 31, 2024 at 22:44
A monistic view of logic. I take it to mean that logical law is flawless or ought be treated that way. There's plenty of semantic room for other or be...
October 31, 2024 at 11:02
Unlike the brickhouse arguments in Objective Spirit?
October 31, 2024 at 02:33
I haven't started excluding middles quite yet. Not suggesting a paradox either. I'm saying a tautology is the truth relative to your point of view. Wh...
October 31, 2024 at 02:12
Isn't a tautology as much a contradiction as anything? (p or ~p) We always take as true but really it's only going to be 1 p. We aren't describing two...
October 30, 2024 at 02:03
Fair summary. Always a pleasure.
October 30, 2024 at 00:03
I'm saying the counter argument to the denial of the LNC is explosion from a monistic system. It wants to be correct so bad that it's willing to claim...
October 29, 2024 at 23:49
Right, it's not the strength of the principle rather the thing that's being contradicted. Save self-consistent systems like mathematics where dropping...
October 29, 2024 at 23:24
A really good exception. It's only "necessary" in monistic or foundational; whatever the word for 'correct' in an academic sense seems most appropriat...
October 29, 2024 at 23:08
But, the assumption that 'if we had a really good one' it would have any actual implications to how reality is perceived strikes me as daft. Why does ...
October 29, 2024 at 22:55
Like questioning whether a valid argument can be conclusive in the other thread. So what if the LNC isn't really a law. It still applies enough of the...
October 29, 2024 at 22:43
It's clever, she's avoiding a semantic counter argument by using an essentially open ended term. But not in the sense of fallacy. What does this have ...
October 23, 2024 at 03:30
But we have plenty of criteria and that's what matters.
October 21, 2024 at 02:37
Right, so what's with complete generality? Why not say all logics.
October 21, 2024 at 01:14
It seems odd to define something as what it can't be. Like a 'law of aviation' can only exist if it applies to lead plane flight. There are no lead pl...
October 21, 2024 at 01:11
Right, it's had excellent branding for years. My question is rather is Russell making up a necessary rule here? Tossing in a strawman universal?Holdin...
October 21, 2024 at 00:55
Its sound if complete generality is a thing. Does it follow that it must hold in partial specificity? If following things applies. Is obfuscation a sy...
October 21, 2024 at 00:44
Cirtangles for the win
October 20, 2024 at 23:54
Thanks for the generous read and I'm still looking up some of these references. I suppose I have cake and eat it to approach to deflation. I think we ...
October 20, 2024 at 20:52
I agree, speaking the same language always helps. Based on this I would fall more in the nilishist camp I suppose. The truth of the conclusion isn't a...
October 20, 2024 at 14:19
Pretty sure that's just a conclusion some would assert about it. Saying there's no general rule that universally ties evidence to truth is a bit diffe...
October 19, 2024 at 20:11
No, I'm saying foundationalism/monistic systems lead to explosion. And relativistic truth implies constraint. Where is the correct position of the fir...
October 19, 2024 at 14:48
The problem has always been the assumption of a foundation instead of lateral corroboration. It's like doing a puzzle, but taking all the pieces apart...
October 19, 2024 at 14:20
Well, if we follow the evidence it suggest that self-reference isn't a reliable source of truth, in the sense the system breaks down per Russell and G...
October 19, 2024 at 13:49
That's my issue with the monistic approach. There's only one correct way to think about it and no one seems to know what that is exactly.
October 19, 2024 at 03:47
True relative to something else some one could assert. It's an approximation with an arrow toward truth.
October 19, 2024 at 01:17
Isn't it though? What did they both do but modify their systems. Russell decided you can't have self-referential sets and Godel concluded that no syst...
October 19, 2024 at 00:36
Generalized. Return to the basic principle things ought to make sense. How that is accomplished may vary.
October 18, 2024 at 23:39
When else are you called a Nihilist for not accepting something is perfect? If there was a one logic it would still be people using it.There might be ...
October 17, 2024 at 23:27
I think we don't know that it can't. Things are certainly going to remain contradictory in many cases. Not presupposing anything other than you don't ...
October 17, 2024 at 04:13
Implied by stating it's violation is a destruction. I haven't encountered all the P logics, so it's inductive. Very persuasive, easy to corroborate, s...
October 17, 2024 at 04:02
I was reading this part as making the PNC conclusive. "Destroyed"? Things will remain contradictory even if there exists more than one way to arrive a...
October 17, 2024 at 03:40
I just go around assuming I'm wrong a lot. It's gotten less efficient with age and education but I'm always the one pleasantly surprised at the end. S...
October 17, 2024 at 03:05
Leon seems guilty of making a strong assertion in favor of the PNC being conclusive. There's a bit of tentative weight inherent in the PNC that it cou...
October 17, 2024 at 02:41
Are we confusing true/correct with simply consistent? All of our ideas agree therefore the symbols we use to represent them must construct actual trut...
October 17, 2024 at 02:06
It's been reconciled as a particle floating on a wave as well. But, that gets into 3d space. Anyway, seems like I lost the beat. I probably need to re...
October 14, 2024 at 01:35
Making an argument for impossible things it seems. I maintain that a square circle ought to be perfectly round and have four corners regardless of how...
October 13, 2024 at 23:15