I'm not sure I understand you. Suppose Alice sees a bird fly by and land on a branch. She perceived the bird flying and then perceived it landing. The...
The isomorphism (i.e., equal form) is between the state of affairs and the statement, as abstracted from their concrete instances. For example, it is ...
I know. That conviction is wrong. :-) Science is simply a natural extension of everyday experience. If a subject/object framing leads to tension and p...
My point was not that we wouldn't share commonalities with other beings. My point is that how the world is perceived and understood depends not just o...
In addition to the natural world, Platonism posits a separate and prior world of the Forms. So, yes, the natural world is then a shadow or reflection ...
The first. There needs to be something that we are talking about beyond the talk itself. At least, there does if we want our talk to be useful or mean...
Yes, I agree that that is what we both say. :chin: OK, perhaps our disconnect is that I'm just making natural language claims. I'm not making claims a...
Yes. And if the argument is sound, then the person has knowledge. Obviously there is no guarantee of that since the conclusion or a premise could be f...
Good to start with a point of agreement! :-) Perhaps you could unpack what the phrases "from outside" and "as meta" are contributing in your above exp...
The answer doesn't depend on those questions. On conventional use, there was no language prior to the emergence of life. Conventions, like road rules,...
Wasn't the world prior to the emergence of life a world without language? Not "in the terms of the language". For example, scientific language changed...
I meant it as shorthand for "independent of our linguistic propensities to apply the same term to them" as in the original Oxford Reference quote. And...
Note that the average person knows nothing about JTB. And most of us, especially when not doing philosophy, normally use language conventionally. So G...
OK, you specifically mentioned Goodman. From Oxford Reference: Now it seems to me that if two things are not similar independent of language, then app...
Gettier didn't need a theory (beyond the JTB theory he was challenging), he just needed to be aware of people's ordinary use of the terms "know", "kno...
The Alice-Bob story is an everyday scenario where Bob forms his belief that it is raining for a legitimate reason (i.e., he justifiably forms his beli...
Just what you might expect in ordinary, everyday life. If Alice looks out the window and says it is raining outside then Bob, in the next room, has ju...
Yes. The Platonist embellishes similarities as (capital-N, entity) Names, the Nominalist reduces similarities to (small-n, paper draft ) names. Neithe...
The luck element is that some person other than Jones happened to fulfill the justification criteria. Smith's belief was true despite the false premis...
I was going for metaphor. :-) For the jest, see here... The broader point is that it is easy to be mislead by language and there are plenty of example...
That would be this: Whereas Gettier's intention was to setup the case such that Smith's belief was justified and true, but not knowledge. If Smith's b...
Yes, but I'm not sure that's essential for justification. You might justifiably believe it will rain tomorrow based on the weather report. Turns out i...
No, what Gettier has shown here is that Smith can have a justified true belief, yet fail to have knowledge (since Smith's belief was true by luck). So...
No easy answer. But it seems to me justifiable just as believing the sun will rise tomorrow (or in a thousand years) is justifiable even though it has...
I think as a general rule, the Law of Excluded Middle applies. But there can be exceptions, e.g., fuzzy logic, or loaded questions like "Have you stop...
Lazerowitz's reclassification hypothesis at the end of that paper seems apt for this thread. Which is the philosophical proposal that an abstract word...
Given its predictiveness and simplicity (and perhaps also its explanatory power), I think it would have to be a strong contender. That the field is un...
I find it difficult to envisage what an "unknown immaterial field" could be. If the GUT requires it, then isn't it then coupled to the world by virtue...
Yes, and you can probably extract everyone's view of universals right there. Contra Nominalism, reference frames aren't just in the mind or in languag...
As you know, reference frames are a formalism that abstract over the systems they stand for. Physicists use that formalism to say that when you do thi...
It's a relational interpretation (which the paper uses, see for example reference in the earlier quote referring to Rovelli's RQM). Right, the electro...
OK, but the puzzle is to account for what happens when the two apparatus slits go past the electron in the electron's rest frame. If the apparatus rem...
Nice find. Also here's a brief media summary of that paper, aptly titled How does a quantum particle see the world? Unfortunately the paper doesn't di...
You requested some stories about universals... The stories all begin with Gilbert visiting Oxford and remarking that he had seen the colleges and the ...
They shouldn't. Since the predictor is infallible, there can only be two possible outcomes: player chooses box B only; box B contains $1,000,000 playe...
You're re-quoting what I had just criticized as verbiage and muddled thinking. Doesn't that bolded statement seem strange to you? It should. It's unna...
It takes a human being to understand that a wheel is circular. OK. It implies that the world is intelligible, which Aristotle held. It doesn't imply a...
Yes, Plato conceived of Forms in a separate and prior realm. Whereas Aristotle conceived of form in the world itself (per hylomorphism), neither prior...
Each person would see that they pass through either the left slit or the right slit. As long as you couldn't obtain which-way information from the peo...
I think demonstrating the potential for circular objects is sufficient to ground mathematical circles. And since mathematical circles can be considere...
To take the law of non-contradiction as an example, Aristotle regards it as a fundamental principle of being ("It is not possible for the same thing a...
Aristotelian realism. The world has a mathematical structure (form) that we can investigate. The essay that @"Wayfarer" highlighted in the Aristotle t...
Based on recent studies on herd immunity, about 7% of people in the Stockholm region have antibodies to Coronavirus. So Sweden's cases and deaths may ...
Solberg says at the end of the article, "I think it was the right to do at the time," she said. "Based on the information we had, we took a precaution...
As you may know, Aristotle was an immanent realist, not a Platonic realist. He regarded mathematical objects as an aspect of the world that could be i...
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