Thanks. I thought maybe it might be veering off topic to get into 'risk' as well as just 'actual Christians right now', but I think there's still suff...
Right. Starting from the beginning. No-one has access to our beliefs-as-models, not even we do. If we say "I believe that..." it's a post hoc story to...
Possibly, but - and this seems to be something that's consistently missed, so I'm going to emphasise it - I'm talking about risk, not necessarily just...
I gave the quote... You're dismissing my engagement (the current one) on the grounds that I've not met some arbitrary threshold of contextualising tha...
It's the exact point. You're' treating something as binomial which is, in fact scalar. There's not 'well-justified' and 'not well-justified' there's b...
Yes, to a degree. https://mises.org/library/how-inflation-helps-keep-rich-and-poor-down Even the formal model, the Nairu (the non-accelerating inflati...
Put simply. People select narratives to make sense of their lives, these narratives have a gravitational pull toward certain interpretations. some nar...
I've cited stuff dozens of times, I'm not going to just repeat it all, it's your view I'm interested in here. If you don't know about the stuff I've p...
Yes, some time ago. Have I misrepresented it somewhere? It didn't leave a particularly strong impression on me. I've here been mostly talking about ho...
There's a lot I like about this. A thorny story which makes the reader think about right and wrong, certainly an improvement on the Disney version. Bu...
No. If a belief is false then it clearly was not well-justified. The justification must, logically, have been insufficient, since whatever test our ep...
To be clear. What you're calling a justified false belief is just a belief whose justification isn't good enough. What you're calling an unjustified t...
Not at all. The JTB definition assumes there's a definable status 'justified', that something might binomially either have or not. Likewise 'true'. Bu...
Plato is described as advocating a censorship of Greek texts such as Homer. Guido Vernani, called Dante's poetry "a poisonous vessel of the father of ...
Indeed it has. There's three options here; 1. I'm constantly saying contradictory things for some reason - stupidity, stubborness, mental instability....
No. I didn't say we could. We also can't treat one justification as if it were the same as another, but it's not J1, J2, J3, J4, J5, TB is it? Still p...
By whom? You think government agencies are impartial in this? But they clearly don't. The figure for non-vaccination is hovering around 20-30%. You've...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/oct/07/covid-19-crisis-boosts-the-fortunes-of-worlds-billionaires It's not all to do with government stimulu...
Oh, I meant 'trivial' in the early 15c use of the term to refer to the trivium - the first three liberal arts (grammar, rhetoric and logic). Obviously...
I'm saying there's two ways to look at (2), we could see that they do, in fact seem to show two beliefs, or we could say that the belief is something ...
You might have to draw this out a bit for me. It seems like, if true, it would make a good counter to what I'm saying (that the book is an undesirable...
I agree. Why not? If I'm talking about the Lord of the Rings with someone, is it a mark of a reasonable adult conversation that I simply refuse to lis...
Yes, I agree. One such reason might be "my epistemic peers have thrown every conceivable test at it and they all believe it's the case" a justificatio...
I'm no bible scholar. If my quotes are inaccurate I'm happy to be corrected. “Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: th...
Yeah, I really don't want to be read as implying that no good can come out of religion. I've heard other stories like your pastor, but then people (as...
Let's look at that claim then. Corporations have presided over the largest accumulation of wealth the world has ever seen. The pharmaceuticals have, i...
It's not about what I believe, this is a debating platform, you're expected to support your positions against interlocutors. That's the point. Otherwi...
Assuming 'true' is a separate property to 'justified'. I'm questioning that assumption. On my account, we're wrong (and so don't have knowledge) if wh...
Not necessarily inaccessible. We might well feel we have, in fact, fully exhausted all tests, but yes, mostly truth is inaccessible, if it weren't we ...
It's what my epistemic peers would see if they invented a time machine, or deep space telescope, faster-than-light travel...all hypothetical tests I c...
What sense could we possibly make of something being the case that we can't even hypothetically detect? What would it mean for it to 'be the case'? We...
No it doesn't. All it shows is that there's a difference, it's insufficient to show that the difference is conceptual. If I have a pound and you have ...
Happy to do that, I don't think I really had such a notion in the first place... but consider it disabused. To better predict your future behaviour (t...
I don't see any evidence for these kinds of assumptions, but I'll take it on advisement. I quoted directly from the book. It's in English, right? Yeah...
No you weren't. You were declaring anyone who disagrees with you to be 'irrational' under the thin guise of of some pseudo-intellectual sociological c...
Interesting piece (but see by response to fdrake above for my concerns about the pragmatism of seeing beliefs as 'boxable' at all). I think this ties ...
Yes, I'd forgotten that. I'm suspicious of certain forms of cognitive dissonance though. It's not going to be easy to explain why without going into g...
I thought I'd explained that (or at least why I think that), but I did tuck it away in some parentheses, so 'll just highlight it. I basically don't s...
Mmm, a noble aim, but I think this goes too far the other way. We need substantial resources to properly test new drugs, especially ones with such a w...
As I said Amoxicillin is also safe and effective. Should I take that too? Being safe and effective is not sufficient justification to cover all the po...
Willy Wonka? Complete power within his domain, cruel and excessive punishments for fairly minor transgressions, being both the creator of temptation a...
I asked You don't need to "go over all this again", just point me to the impartial scientific journal from which you obtained your knowledge that ther...
Popular discourse. I mean, when our political leaders attend a mass, or the church presides over some national event, no-one mentions the issue. I don...
Well, the manager's manager is an even less plucky, even more overpaid cog, and I sympathise, but I don't see your story as much of defense. You left....
Indeed. Not to mention the fact that, contrary to our bizarre mythology, hospital reports are not provided by the plucky, overworked nurse. They're pr...
...and the 80/70%? You think they've made their decision rationally because...? It happens to be the same as yours? Who said anything about discountin...
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