Beliefs cannot be real properties of brains, because the notion of epistemic-error is under-determined with respect to the neurological and physical f...
Anyone claiming that science can solve or dissolve the hard-problem, is not only wrong, but demonstrates a profound misunderstanding of the nature and...
You can't avoid the implied subjective idealism, but naturalised science can at least accommodate the paradox via the adoption of an irrealist stance;...
One of philosophy's greatest mysteries, even more mysterious than the hard problem, is the mystery of how Daniel Dennett ascended to prominence in ang...
I suspect "I believe X" causes grammatical disagreements and confusion due to the fact that it can be used to mean ?"X is more likely true than false"...
Ultimately, what Gettier overlooks is the perspectival nature of belief and knowledge, namely the fact that the intentional object of a judgement cann...
That's where we disagree then. If someone other than myself claims to 'know' something, I can't interpret their use of the word as making transcendent...
Suppose i assert "I know that it's raining because I am experiencing rain and that this fact coheres with everything else that i know". But suppose th...
A good introduction is Judea Pearl's "Introduction to Causal Inference". The lesson is that causal implications cannot be derived from a statistical m...
As we are both not john, we can both agree that John's beliefs doesn't equal the truth, but that doesn't give John the epistemic warrant to know that ...
If you understand my point of view, then we might be talking apples and oranges with you playing the game of arguing within accepted philosophical con...
If you say "It is raining", i cannot interpret you as saying anything other than " Michael believes it is raining". And if i notice that it isn't rain...
If 3) refers to your belief that it is raining, then I would say, by appealing to the meaningless of Moore's Sentence, that : John doesn't know that i...
It is obviously that case that you aren't necessarily willing to presently assert your previous beliefs, or to presently assert my present beliefs. Th...
That's understandable, due to historical disagreements and confusion in science as to how to formulate the notion, but things have rapidly changed in ...
I dislike the word "hard", for it seems to encourage an inaccurate association of pain and struggle with respect to the "hard" objective concerned, le...
Oppeheimer would be the distal cause of the explosion, as described by transitivity. And the role of U-235 might also be relegated to that of a distal...
The study of transitive relations is otherwise known as Order Theory. A model of Causation without transitivity would essentially amount to a set of u...
Why is it necessary to believe that a flipped coin assumes a definite state of affairs before checking? This assumption only appears to be necessary r...
I like the brash and provocative title. As to your underlying views, they sound faintly reminiscent of Leo Strauss. What is your understanding of the ...
I'm inclined to reject the idea that truth is a predicate for similar reasons as to why Frege, Hume and Kant rejected the idea of existence as a predi...
"The visual data is believed to be consistent with the existence of a cow, relative to the present state of the observer that summarises the reliabili...
I roughly concur; although by "trail" i wasn't necessarily implying a man-made trail. Tea leaf patterns at the bottom of a cup would suffice as an exa...
Is a trail with a fork ( ---< ) vague or ambiguous? If one intends to use the trail as a path to a destination in mind, then the trail is ambiguous. I...
Constructively, the implications of the incompleteness theorems are stronger than that. The consistency of certain systems (PA and the like) cannot be...
Recall that Peano arithmetic might turn out to be inconsistent. In which case, an application of a deductive system based on such arithmetic might res...
Apples and Oranges. Both Turing and Wittgenstein understood that sufficiently complex formal systems (.e.g Peano arithmetic) cannot be known to be con...
I've only skim read the above article, so correct me of i'm wrong, but i'm of the impression that Dummett (according to Devitt) is equating, or maybe ...
One issue that tends to get overlooked with anti-realism, is that it is consistent for a person to assert anti-realism for himself, but to assert real...
In my view there's nothing naive about 'naive anti-realism', so it doesn't need moderation. So-called moderate anti-realism is either a generalized fo...
Doesn't your timestamp proposal amount to fitting experience to theory, rather than vice versa? I used to have similar thoughts when contemplating McT...
A definition of realism is a contradiction in terms, for the ultimate purpose of any definition is to reduce theoretical nomenclature to observations ...
If a self-described realist claims to be making a metaphysical assertion founded upon reason, and if he accepts that the tribunal of reason are his ex...
In what senses, if any, is the following thought empirically meaningful? : "my present experience is different from my previous experience" Suppose th...
Yes, as was Wittgenstein throughout his entire career. I would first suggest reading Bertrand Russell's Analysis of Mind. Without reading this book, i...
Determinism and non-determinism aren't real properties of the universe, for as demonstrated with the Middle-Earth fictional universe, these terms have...
The author JR Tolkien determined what happened in the world of Middle-Earth, but he didn't specify what would have happened in the story if alternativ...
I was responding to the common belief that chance represents ignorance. We know from experience that the odds for a "fair die" landing on any side, if...
It is saying that the physical propensity for obtaining the respective possible outcome, is above zero and less than 1. Without additional information...
It is imprecise because probability intervals are assigned to outcomes, rather than numbers. e.g. P ( dice throw = six) = (0,1) Which only express the...
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