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Of all the responses it feels as though you've not understood, that was the one I had most confidence in. I was just a joke. Maybe. I think @"I like s...
December 26, 2021 at 07:56
Houses exist, that doesn't mandate that I refer to them. I can refer to whatever I want. I can say "house" and mean 'fish', nothing prevents me from d...
December 24, 2021 at 18:27
Oh. You could have saved us a lot of time by just telling me that in the first place. I bet you let people leave the restaurant with spinach still stu...
December 24, 2021 at 18:27
I don't see how. It seems perfectly possible that someone saying "It's raining" tells us about their beliefs, and there still be a fact about whether ...
December 24, 2021 at 17:21
Address something I've written, or just repeat your existing claim as if this were you own personal blog. Either way I don't really mind, but I'm not ...
December 24, 2021 at 17:21
The question is not whether vulnerable people would be safer this way, it's whether there's an even safer means to protect them. Even if you were righ...
December 24, 2021 at 17:20
I meant that the success of our tests aren't determined by how much we expect them to be successful. If I continue to test my belief that the cat is o...
December 24, 2021 at 17:18
You'd like to reserve 'intention' for conscious species? I see that as more of a religious/ideological decision than a scientific one. Not that that m...
December 24, 2021 at 17:17
What has materialism got to do with it? Fertility rates in developing countries are controlled mainly by age of marriage, length of breastfeeding and ...
December 24, 2021 at 12:05
Yet apparently... Which 'science' would this be? The one you just instructed us to ignore? Why would the old woman not just put a mask on, wash her ha...
December 24, 2021 at 11:41
What do you see as the difference between the two?
December 24, 2021 at 10:13
Yeah, I see how that could work. I was more thinking of the whole chain such that some mental content could not be wholly dependant on other mental co...
December 24, 2021 at 10:12
Ahh. I'm not very well versed in these things so didn't realise I was sowing more confusion than I was eradicating. Best I avoid the term in future, t...
December 24, 2021 at 10:12
If knowledge (correctly used) is defeasible, then it can't also be 'true' (where 'true is used to denote some property other than simply 'well justifi...
December 24, 2021 at 10:11
You're still not allowing that the position I'm discussing entails all propositions only have meaning in context. You still take a meaning I've given ...
December 24, 2021 at 10:11
Possibly, or I might have explained it poorly. I'm not seeing a direct contradiction (the two quotes aren't even on the same subject), so perhaps you ...
December 24, 2021 at 10:11
Not at any time as far as I recall. What's 'it' here? 'It', the statement, seems entirely reliant on you. Without you there'd be no statement. 'It', t...
December 23, 2021 at 14:18
The point I'm highlighting is not that you think I'm wrong, it's that you seem to think I must be lying or stubborn... that you can't just think I've ...
December 23, 2021 at 13:58
..because... Could you join the dots any further. I don't see how you not being the centre of the universe determines what "1+1=2" means.
December 23, 2021 at 13:56
Ah, the classic. "The world is as it seems to me to be, therefore anyone who thinks otherwise must be mistaken, lying, or deliberately obtuse" Do you ...
December 23, 2021 at 13:49
It seems to. Why do you think it doesn't? I can't make sense of that sentence I'm afraid.
December 23, 2021 at 13:46
Yes. And "it's raining" has a meaning too, but not within "I believe it's raining". Having established that some portions of expressions can be expres...
December 23, 2021 at 13:06
So when I say "it's raining" I don't believe it's raining?
December 23, 2021 at 11:11
Nothing at all. Partial expressions don't mean anything, it just 'bewitchment by grammar' to think they do. What does 'for a quick' mean in "I'm going...
December 23, 2021 at 11:09
How is this an answer? "What does 'it's ambiguous' mean?" "It means it's ambiguous" "What does 'he knows' mean?" "It means, he knows" No one considers...
December 23, 2021 at 11:01
Well then you could address the point instead of avoiding it. When people say things like "it's raining", they mean that they have a belief that it's ...
December 23, 2021 at 10:47
And if you want to know what they mean by "whether or not it's raining..."? You've just given a circular definition. The question was what people mean...
December 23, 2021 at 10:29
And if we want to know what they mean by "the weather is..."?
December 23, 2021 at 10:04
As I said...
December 23, 2021 at 09:48
I didn't ask if the pharmaceuticals intended to monetise those problems too. I asked you why you thought our governments weren't previously willing to...
December 23, 2021 at 09:09
Yes, it's the primary difficulty here. If I (as a scientist) am to explain what your 'seeing the rose in the garden' consists in, I can't very well gi...
December 23, 2021 at 09:07
Do they have to believe in non-determinism of some sort? After all, our bodies have not been around forever (though mine sometimes feels like it has!)...
December 23, 2021 at 09:07
Why is that? (I've got a vague memory of us discussing this before, but I couldn't find it in the 'archives')
December 23, 2021 at 09:07
No, I'm pretty sure there's grass out there. I model it as grass, my wife models it as grass. In fact, everyone I speak to models it as gras, so I'm q...
December 23, 2021 at 09:05
Agreed. We seem to be going round in circles. Perhaps you could address the issue I raised last time you made this point. My beliefs about the weather...
December 23, 2021 at 09:05
As I said. I think I understand. I doubt my understanding is the one you're looking for. For a mind-independent fact to be as I believe it to be is fo...
December 22, 2021 at 18:54
And yet we hear talk of such spectres as the 'red quale'. Does the 'red consciousness' make any sense at all?
December 22, 2021 at 18:22
Yes. Which makes JTB incoherent because we can't talk about the facts simply being as we believe them to be yet both 'knowledge' and 'truth' are words...
December 22, 2021 at 18:22
No. It's "see geometric shapes and patterns", as you said first... before introducing the word qualia. What's qualia doing that the first expression w...
December 22, 2021 at 17:25
I'm not sure how to judge whether I 'understand' I think I do (obviously). Is there some aspect of the understanding I've presented here that you coul...
December 22, 2021 at 17:18
Whatever it is I'm modelling as 'the grass'. My model, in this scenario, turns out to be so bad that there isn't even anything other people are also a...
December 22, 2021 at 17:07
Yes, we do. We also have a malaria crisis to deal with, an obesity crisis, an opioid crisis, an AIDS crisis, a poverty crisis, a TB crisis, a diarrhoe...
December 22, 2021 at 16:46
You said... ...then said... Since the most powerful group in that list are the pharmaceutical companies themselves, who are pushing the pro-vaccine ag...
December 22, 2021 at 16:36
Yes. According to us, yes. Despite anyone's protestations to the contrary, I don't see it as possible to genuinely conceive of a notion of 'true' that...
December 22, 2021 at 14:10
Neoliberal bullshit. Corporations generate demand for their products. Why the fuck else do you think they spend billions on lobbying, advertising, spo...
December 22, 2021 at 12:15
Question. Do you think we'd have made greater advances in modern medicine if it were a) nationalised, b) more heavily regulated, or c) less heavily re...
December 22, 2021 at 12:01
I haven't even mentioned modern medicine. My comments were about the pharmaceutical industry, if you're only referring to the medicines, then I'm not ...
December 22, 2021 at 11:44
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/opioids
December 22, 2021 at 11:30
The point is, the corporate interest driving government, media and scientific responses is overwhelmingly pro-vaccine. There's not a single major corp...
December 22, 2021 at 08:57
Bullshit. Largest lobbying power over governments - Pharmaceuticals https://www.investopedia.com/investing/which-industry-spends-most-lobbying-antm-so...
December 22, 2021 at 07:28