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Calling a non sequitor a non sequitor is making a case. Your conclusion doesn’t follow from any of your premises Does not lead to. If you think it doe...

An example?

I think it’s the clearest most unequivocal sign of a non sequitor. False. The point of the trolley problem is that we can’t tell which is better. Beca...

Seems at most like a problem Banno’s system always shares. “I know that it’s going to rain tomorrow” “No you don't, you just think you know it, prove ...

That's where I disagree. It seems poor expression to me to say that one doesn't know things that are false by definition. What's an example of a probl...

Really? A quick thought experiment. Say someone had these two choices in front of them: 1- Save TheMadFool from a car crash and donate 100 dollars to ...

Probably. I don't see the consequences as being any different from answering "yes". That's what I keep asking you about. What is the problem with "yes...

So what's so different between this and a system where "knowledge" expresses a high degree of justification? If what you know is true by definition, b...

For the last time since you seem to not want to have an actual conversation, and would just keep redirecting me to the same posts over and over: Sure....

Ok so we don't know what to do. So I ask what we should do. And now we know what do do "as clear as crystal" I'm confused. I read the whole thread. Re...

What makes a moral dilemma a moral dilemma is that we don't know what to do, not that both options are good/bad. If you compare "kill 100 people" with...

So you can know something, and be wrong? But I thought you can’t know things that are false (from your about page) I don’t get what you’re saying. Jus...

In Buddhism, attachment leads to suffering, not desire. If the Buddha had no desire he wouldn’t get out of bed.

I’m sure you wouldn’t think so if faced with a school shooter.

By your definition of “is not wrong about” (which is the same as “cannot be wrong about”) no I don’t. It could be the case that the google translate p...

You can say we’re morally valuable because we are close enough to a specific configuration of meat. A configuration where we deem that things that tak...

because if something we thought we knew turned out to be false, we only thought we knew it.[/quote

So you’d propose we do no therapy until we have fully figured out human behavior? What about people who got harmed because we had false theories in ph...

Yes, that's what I meant. But you can't tell whether you know anything or you just think you know it. So in the end you still can't tell whether you'r...

Yes, and I'm asking what the point of this is. Instead of simply saying "I do not know whether or not X is true/false", you now made it "If I know X t...

What’s the difference between this and:

By your definition, I don't. At no point am I certain that my belief cannot be false. Then again, by your definition, you don't either: So you can be ...

So given some belief, how can I tell whether or not that belief is knowledge? It's just weird to me that you define knowledge such that if we know X, ...

Is the same as "Once we know something, we are 100% sure our belief can not be false" no? That's what I interpreted it as. You accept a hierarchy of j...

So at what level on the hierarchy of belief are these things we know? How much justification do we need to reach this state of "knowing", where we are...

There are also countless theories in physics, until we settle on the best one. Then we continuously revise. And psychology does not “enjoy them all”. ...

Oh. Didn't know that. Fair enough. Sure. The goal of my comment wasn't to defend the universality of certain ideas, but the existence of ideas. A larg...

When any belief is allowed to fester without opposition you get atrocities like the crusades and Nazism. You should care what others think and believe...

If you think about it, being on a plane is implied in the definition. Any three points are always on a plane. If it’s non Euclidean it wouldn’t have s...

It has 3 vertices connected by 3 edges and all of them are perfectly straight. Nothing material fits that description. Yet the description itself is v...

I'm actually with Olivier for once on this one. Maybe 'A' isn't a good example. What about "triangle". We clearly talk about the "ideal triangle" all ...

I didn't mention necessity once so you're just pulling things out of your ass. I'm saying your God has the ability to change the past, and your memori...

You wouldn’t be able to tell if he did or didn’t so you have no reason to think he hasn’t.

In other words, they are the forms that physical stuff seems to follow. In the end what exists is: The physical stuff, in different forms. You take fo...

What I meant was that sometimes we call forms of physical things “physical” (waves) and sometimes we don’t (algorithms). I think I get what you’re say...

Definitely, or we wouldn’t study them under “physics” I think a better example for you would be algorithms. We don’t consider those physical (mostly t...

Sure. I don't know what "prior" means here. Are we talking about a timeline? I don't think it makes sense to ask when "triangle", the structure, start...

But they are structures of material stuff. Always. So in the end the number of "kinds of stuff" that exist is still 1. Sure we can talk of the structu...

Care to explain then? Because last time you said a substance was a holder of properties. That’s the definition being used here.

But this still wouldn’t make ideas a substance. Do you think a triangle (the idea, not a physical triangle) is a substance? A holder of properties? If...

Rather, that is the point in question. You don't throw a magnetic field. And you don't measure the intensity and direction of a rock. Does that make r...

I didn't even notice you could like posts. But if the goal is to encourage better posts maybe showing the number of followers is better? That way it's...

Right. Good talk.

So what if the camera is part of a bot whose job it is to wander around and take pictures of ducks? Or is an automated security camera? In that case d...

What? So what if the camera user is blind? Or if the camera is a security camera with no user? The camera user wasn't mentioned once because they are ...

That's called begging the question. Whether or not minds are material is precisely what's being discussed here, even though that's not what the thread...

You haven't addressed the critique. Your argument is that since you can't see the mind, since the mind is what weaves the objects together into a worl...

“The underlying, supernatural stuff that makes minds so obviously different than bodies, has sufficient properties with the physical stuff of nature t...

I’d say there are plenty of people who should get banned on the site but 3017 was very far down the list for me. Don’t know why you’d start with him/h...

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