Ah well, if you think he's right then that settles it. We were all just waiting to hear what you reckoned about it. I should publish immediately befor...
Exactly. You absolutely can zap a brain with electricity and change what a person's sensing and feeling. There is zero doubt about this in neuroscienc...
What claims? Scientific ones? If so then no-one except the scientists involved check them out against their senses. I can't think of any beliefs that ...
No it isn't. No one in real life thinks things are correct or incorrect, it's a philosophical construct to engender ideological purity. People believe...
Then stop invoking issues within it that you do not understand in your 'philosophical' musings. Well you're clearly not because neither of them are sa...
Nobody ignores empirical evidence from their senses in the construction of their beliefs. It's what our brain does, we can no more stop it from doing ...
You didn't claim you knew something. You claimed other people didn't. That's what pisses me off, the hubris in thinking everyone else has got it wrong...
What the fuck kind of argument is that? Dennet tries to deny qualia need explaining but lilacs remind you of your childhood so...what? What on earth h...
Unbelievable! Anyone even dare to have an opinion on consciousness and you leap to "have you read the literature", "you don't understand the issues" a...
Maybe. But it's really not that complicated. Any logical argument you bring to bear to show there are eternal absolute facts can only do so by assumin...
In order to demonstrate that a position is begging the question it only need appear to be the case here and now and the position holds. It doesn't req...
The begging of the question is not that the definition contains the assumption that there must be at least one such, it is in the assumption that it t...
They seem like both to me. ...seems like both a premise (of your reductio) and a definition of what 'eternally' means. Likewise with the statement abo...
I don't think this is quite true. One need not deny the existence of sense data properties to deny that calling them qualia is of any use, or to deny ...
Take a synaesthete. When they see the number 4, they hear a high pitched ringing. They test this a million times looking at a million number 4s. Is th...
Firstly, yes, I've read both, and secondly why are you referring me to literature? I just asked what the nature of this knowledge was. Has that sudden...
How do you measure responsiveness to how the world is without knowing in advance how the world is? How could you possibly know what anyone is respondi...
Those are events. I was asking what the knowledge consists of. After drinking vodka, what us it that I know that cannot be known without drinking vodk...
That's just a repetition of what you said. I'm asking why. What are the things you know from having an experience which are not knowable without havin...
You've begged the question. It being the case that E is either true or false assumes that there are absolute eternal facts (ie E must be either true o...
The theory already accounts for that. Wayfarer kicks the ball, Andrew M kicks the ball and Alice kicks the ball are all different events. The distinct...
Yeah, that's my understanding of it too. I wasn't questioning your understanding of deduction I was questioning it's application to knowledge about th...
I wasn't asking about the motivation. I'm sure you're desperate to distinguish these things (I'm less bothered myself). But motives are beside the poi...
1. Why not? And 2. Who on earth believes something despite also believing there's evidence to the contrary (sufficient to counter that belief)? A few ...
But once you've got away from actually knowing and into ways the world actually is you've removed the need for justification altogether. Why use (or e...
That is something else, though. It acquires this status 'justified' simply by virtue of there being another belief which references it. How does there...
Where did I say it wasn't a harm? I said the 'morality' of it had nothing to do with harm. The extent to which the people carrying out these atrocitie...
But you haven't 'realised' certain combinations of things are not possible, you just believe it to be the case. I'm not seeing how that makes any diff...
Perhaps an example might help rather than all these As and Bs. Say I believe that there are unicorns in my back garden. How does my additional belief ...
No. You always were mistaken about one if these things, they merely exhaust the set. If you've narrowed it, what was the possibility you've eliminated...
How on earth would we 'debate' that. What arguments could we possibly bring to the table. You think 'morality' is done to the individual, it isn't. Pe...
Just want to add for clarity. 1. Private language argument - private meanings for terms don't make sense in the context of what a language is. 2. The ...
You simply restating what you consider immoral doesn't get us anywhere. We all know what you consider immoral, we've established that such a limited v...
I'm not sure his better to explain it than I just did. In order to support the notion that a belief that A somehow changes property as a result of som...
That doesn't have any bearing on the point I'm making. There are key components of a healthcare system which cannot be bought in a short timescale no ...
Ah, yes. I made the mistake of presuming any rational basis behind this clown-show of a government... As it is I'm now prepared to entertain that they...
As I said in my first comment, this is of no use with knowledge claims because we have no means of distinguishing premises from conclusions. We cannot...
This seems incredibly implausible to me. 1. The majority of the Tory vote is in the older population, they'd be killing off their own support. 2. The ...
All of which requires a belief in the truth-preserving nature of logical functions, a belief that 'A = B and C', and a belief that 'B and C are contra...
How is the existence of a reason to rule it out not also a belief? All you have here is competing beliefs - the belief in A and the belief in a reason...
So if that debt can accrue to me for benefits given without my consent to the deal, then why cannot the same debt be assumed for an imaginary non-exis...
Under what circumstances are they 'not considered' for these sufferings. Why do you think people are so worked up about climate change, biodiversity l...
Really? What nation did you have in mind whose health service is run primarily with the health of the nation in mind, without demands of greater effic...
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