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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
What has materialism got to do with it? Fertility rates in developing countries are controlled mainly by age of marriage, length of breastfeeding and ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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!)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
You said... ...then said... Since the most powerful group in that list are the pharmaceutical companies themselves, who are pushing the pro-vaccine ag...
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...
Neoliberal bullshit. Corporations generate demand for their products. Why the fuck else do you think they spend billions on lobbying, advertising, spo...
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...
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 ...
The point is, the corporate interest driving government, media and scientific responses is overwhelmingly pro-vaccine. There's not a single major corp...
Bullshit. Largest lobbying power over governments - Pharmaceuticals https://www.investopedia.com/investing/which-industry-spends-most-lobbying-antm-so...
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