You are conflating what it is you are "knowing". You can "know" or "not know" how to use a technique which produces useful results, and you can "know"...
If it sounds like I am talking to you in absolutes, it is because I am appealing to your presumed competence as a speaker of English. If you think tha...
You can call it idealistic, but I am not discussing platonic ideals. I am discussing the concept of knowledge, as we use it daily. A guess is not cons...
"External world" is not what I want. Rather, external to the speaker. My point is that there is a clear external-to-the-speaker/internal-to-the-speake...
If we take ? to mean the number, which people generally do, your quote is a assertion of a geometric fact: "the ratio of the diameter of a circle to i...
A random guess may be in agreement with facts, it may have instrumental value, but it is not knowledge. I see no inconsistency with this account of tr...
There are plenty of examples of well justified falsehoods, like the one I gave above. By your logic, the use of the everyday word 'true' would be impo...
Suppose you bought a paper bag of apples, and left them in the car for a few minutes when you went to the post office. While you were away, a thief br...
This is neither declaration nor supposition. It is an assertion, of a geometric fact. Not an expressive, because geometry, like the physical world, is...
So now meaning shifts with tense to keep your account coherent. And I'm the dogmatist. Yet, tense has absolutely nothing to do with it. He knows that ...
Yeah yeah. From what I read this was a minority view. But this is utterly beside the point. Answer the question. Did MOST of the ancient Greeks know t...
Every speech act is public, that goes without saying (leaving aside self talk). The distinction is, what is the domain of this rule? Where does it hap...
Assertives and Expressives are quite similar. The difference is that assertives assert about the outer world, expressives assert about the inner world...
After thinking about it, by Searle's scheme there must be a missing category: There are assertives, and inward assertives, which are expressives. Ther...
whether or not this activity is in itself philosophy, you must agree that it does, or can, bring the decider into contact with philosophical issues. S...
What about suppositions? Is this a missing category? Suppositions cut across reasoning ("Suppose the following is true, then what follows?") and story...
This is untrue (and therefore, not knowledge). Did the ancient Greeks know the earth was the center of the universe? This is bad English. It is proper...
Whatever dude. You are wrong, obviously wrong, and I made it abundantly clear. If your can't admit it, that's on you. If you can't address the argumen...
You are absolutely confusing them. "I know where my hat is" is a perfect exemplar the verb "know". Nonetheless, if the hat is not there, it is an inco...
Hmm, maybe it is the fact that I have always been philosophically inclined that has made these kind of decisions nightmarishly hard for me! "I like th...
I completely disagree. All of these life decisions are fraught with epistemological and philosophical considerations. It is what makes decisions so ha...
I'm not sure that's true, but if this is the case, that's totally fine. I'm not committed to the meaning of words being rigid. Natural language is all...
"Knowledge" and so many other words are like "obscenity" in one of the trials in the 60's: The judge couldn't define it, but he famously "knows it whe...
I am proposing an equivalence between arguments: they are equivalent, and equally weak. You can (incorrectly) claim sexual selection is unsupportable....
Who is to say that god didn't create all the animals in their present form 5000 years ago, and leave fossils in the ground to tease heretical archaeol...
So, do you not believe in sexual selection in other animals as well? Or is it just humans? Not that either are in dispute, afaik. It is not an all or ...
To be sure, unattractive "borons" still have sex, now, and most likely prehistorically. All that is required is that the sexy attributes provide an ad...
Modern conditions are a mere blip, and irrelevant to our evolutionary history. This might be true today, where huge, concentrated populations, and mon...
It is the attempt to use argument and reason alone to derive truth, in those shrinking domains where this is considered a legitimate undertaking. Thes...
Intelligence correlates poorly with creativity, well with humor: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20157303?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contentswo Here is one whic...
Correlation is all that is required here Except, they have studied both. Humor is more correlated Unattractive people also mate, so what Humor correla...
You speak with authority, I guess you have conducted a comprehensive review of the relevant research. But a cursory search does not support your findi...
Humor is a proxy for intelligence, and a vehicle for sexual selection. It's a cliche, the hot girl with the inexplicably ugly guy. Why is she with him...
I do, being human. I think with a little reflection you will agree. For you to experience the itch of a mosquito bite, must you constantly think, I'm ...
Back to topic! One thing I didn't consider: without thoughts, we still have bodily feelings, and emotions. These are both egoic in the sense that they...
So really I was conflating realism and materialism. I wonder how Berkeley would respond to this question: how do I know that the red I see is the red ...
Huh? I am? I still don't see how this case is resolved for Berkeley. The world is real, and mental, and we access it via phenomenal perception. No ref...
Sure, the models change. But this is unproblematic for the realist. Because, the models, be they theoretic or phenomenal, are not reality. So the fact...
Except, your models of the world do not change when you put on and take off rose colored glasses. But your perceptions do. How do you consistently mod...
If you are a bat, or if you take a hallucinogen, is the world then radically altered? Obvious nonsense, not worth serious consideration. The mind is e...
I think this is why right wingers gravitate to obvious liars: it is a sign of strength and status, to be able to tell such lies. The stronger one is, ...
It feels like you are reading way too much into the "precise" verbosity favored by professional philosophers. He is merely covering is bases. Would an...
Only by rejecting Cartesian dualism does the explanatory gap even arise. I also reject the Cartesian Theater, I believe we as conscious beings are the...
The fact that consciousness arises from brain processes is utterly uncontroversial. The philosophically interesting question that remains is how can i...
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