As a sentiment perhaps. But willpower isn't a scientifically admissible cause of human action. Rather, willpower is the force one exerts in the pursui...
Yes, as far as truth is concerned, perspectivism is unavoidable. But that isn't to say that I necessarily believe in the possibility of first-person c...
The individual might use the social consensus as an estimator for what is true, but ultimately it is environmental feedback, experience and reason tha...
Oughts and expectations are close cousins, due to the inferential semantics of propositions. For example, the meaning of the sentence "this apple is r...
If Suicide is tempting, then presumably the solution might be to contemplate the mysterious state of suicide, such that with any luck one 'virtualises...
In my opinion, the sleeping beauty problem and the doomsday argument aren't meaningful epistemological problems, and merely serve as reductio ad absur...
Yes, I am tempted to think that such notions are non-cognitive expressions of one's epistemic disposition ,-although the more general world "truth" so...
I think Quine's web of belief provides a reasonable picture of the broad notion objectivity in terms of epistemic acceptability; the objectivity of a ...
Not necessarily; Only that the objective-subjective distinction has no objective justification on pain of infinite regress. I am still nevertheless pr...
You first need to define what makes each ball unique. What makes one green ball different from another green ball? Do the green balls each possess ess...
"my consciousness is an illusion" can only mean that my stimulus-responses aren't publicly understood. If society concludes that my judgement of an ob...
The philosophical problem here, is that there is no definite meaning of 'living at a particular date', and we get very different answers to our questi...
Well, for Presentism and neo-Kantianism, the probability of living now is one :) From the standard realist perspective, averaging over all possible fu...
I agree that there is much to be gained by considering philosophical disputes to be cultural conflicts, in which the role of the philosopher is that o...
The problem is, the truth conditions and semantics of our physical ontology, i.e. our enumeration of 'what things exist', is defined in terms of publi...
Suppose somebody sends you a circle in the post. You then proceed to verify that the circle isn't perfect. Does "perfect" here refer to an internal pr...
Probability should be considered as part of set theory, rather than classical set theory being considered to be a foundation for probability theory. F...
Yes, any programmer's use of an infinite FOR loop. We all know in practice that infinite loops are, in a pragmatic sense, merely finite loops whose te...
sorry, I should have said infinity is equivalent to volatile and unbounded. I am saying volatile and unbounded is equivalent to the specification of a...
Finitism overlooks the fact that the practical use of 'infinity' is merely to denote an unspecified unbounded number. Consequently, If infinity wasn't...
In my opinion, Wittgenstein wanted to use the word "grammar" to refer to the pre-theoretical, intuitive, ineffable and phenomenological aspects of mea...
Turn the question around: Is it right for humans to allow other animals to commit cannibalism? Suppose that we can synthetically mass-produce artifici...
The idea of the Turing test involves interaction between two open systems. This implies that the dispute over the significance of the Turing test is i...
There are two ways to interpret the Turing test, namely the realist/cartesian interpretation and the anti-realist/non-cartesian interpretation. The pu...
Supposing a speaker, perhaps a schizophrenic, behaved in a certain fashion while talking in a contradictory manner about his actions (much like a poli...
In constructive logic, the logical rule for introducing existential quantification replaces a proposition that directly refers to a particular, say "M...
Given that Existence was one of Kant's modal categories of understanding, perhaps Kant was arguing for your very position, namely that existence isn't...
In that case, it sounds like you are more interested in the policy optimization of Decision processes. Such problems can be implicitly solved via adap...
The problem is, set theory fails to explicitly distinguish 'constructed sets' that correspond to an algorithm known to the logician, from 'discovered ...
I think you're referring to modal logic, i.e. to possibility. Syntactically, modal logic looks like the inverse of deduction, due to the fact that ded...
yes, we appeal to external witnesses, such as the operations of computers, or to the opinions of others, in order to conform whether or not our reason...
"Logic doesn't require facts" - Only when our process of deduction isn't in question. Remember, we usually need to verify our proofs via appealing to ...
Presumably you mean formal logic (since the question is logical in its very nature). Formal logic is in an identity crisis imo, due it's failure to ex...
Yes, as I understand it, verbal knowledge - the sort of knowledge discussed by epistemologists, is trivial and irrelevant to Gettier problems, for ver...
In PI Wittgenstein examines "Moore's Paradox", namely the sentence "It is raining, but I believe that it is not raining" and as I recall he concludes,...
The problem of course, is that natural language is it's own meta-language; it is therefore incapable of expressing a distinction between the publicly ...
By realism I mean the idea that the meaning or truth-makers of a proposition are fully transcendent of the process of it's verification. For instance,...
Consider all that happens when teaching a physical law: i) We write a statement which expresses a physical law. ii) We demonstrate the meaning of the ...
All you have is an intuition that you call your "future self", an intuition which you currently experience and which is therefore a part of your immed...
Compare the following statements A: "Such and such is consciousness" B: "I can relate to such and such". Notice that nobody disagrees with you wheneve...
What if a buyer of the bottle believed 100% in the curse, but had a 'non-standard' understanding of "eternity", whereby eternal hell was understood to...
The natural concept of depression isn't descriptive of the state of the individual per-se, but of the individual's behavioral relationship to society....
It isn't as simple as that, because the debate isn't purely an epistemic dispute over the possibility of theological knowledge. Rather, the debate bet...
Californian houses can in fact metamorphose into flowers; by digesting themselves with fire to produce a large quantity of heat that can germinate flo...
In the mathematical subject of topology, it is joked that donuts are coffee mugs and cows are footballs; because their shapes can be morphed into one ...
As i see it, the notions of linguistic reference, causation and rigid-designation are part of an irreducible triad, in that each of these concepts can...
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