That's the matter under discussion. My contention is that it means ' John is a man who I believe has not participated in the kind of series of events ...
Fuck! Well done. Yeah, as I said some way back... A little fear was all it took. Governments and their corporate sponsors are presiding over the large...
Yep. JCVI statement 19th July - ‘any decision on deployment of vaccines must be made on the basis that the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks ...
I hadn't dared to post Norman's work, I'm glad someone did. Another perfectly decent career down the pan. He hasn't had a single paper accepted by any...
Yes. Your mistake is treating people's lives as if they're the plot of 'Top Gun'. There's no 'your house'/'my house'. America is made mostly of people...
That's not the correct phrasing. In the scenario (at T2), I've shown InPitzotl the empty box. We believe there's no flower in it. So what a person is ...
How 'identified'? Look, the point being made here is simple. (and also answers @"EricH"'s question earlier). There's a whole host of solutions to this...
Yes, indeed. Likewise one would need to actually be eaten before one could really predict the outcome of jumping into the lion enclosure. So hard to t...
If you can't tell the difference between an effort to bring someone to justice and a farcical showtrial to gloss over attempts to silence journalism t...
On what basis then? Must I wring blood from the stone! I see. Although not relevant anymore if the fine's not based on PCR anyway. Presumably in NT th...
As I've already said... You're baffled because you think I believe the things you believe and then can't understand why I reach a different conclusion...
I've always argued that (when said by me) that "there's no flower in the box" means 'I believe there's no flower in the box'. Likewise, "it's raining"...
Don't mind the interjection at all, fill your boots. I don't understand it though. At T1 you point (by reference in a statement) to a flower - you wan...
Really? On the basis of PCR? That seems like opening a hornet's nest of counter claims. Didn't your government only just return three detainment camp ...
But the latter doesn't follow either. I mean, I agree it doesn't necessarily follow that we respond to images (as in 'I have an image of my house on t...
Yeah, the 'it's just obvious to any right thinking person' argument. Well then how do you talk about X? If I show you a box and tell you there's a flo...
You can say that, yes. It would mean "iff I come to believe it is raining (after meeting my threshold of satisfactory justification) then John is righ...
Neither are what you claimed. You gave us a list of behaviours which would lead to being a bachelor, that's not that same thing a a definition of what...
Sigh. No it doesn't. The vaccine significantly reduces the prevalence of cases in the community and significantly reduces the prevalence of serious ou...
The first is not equivalent to the latter two. We can define 'wet' without using 'standing in the rain' (or any synonyms for it). Easily done. We can'...
I agree. I was quite careful to be circumspect about the degree of progress along the road. I can't do the hidden box thing, so people will just have ...
Well yes. even 'means' means different things in different contexts. Here you're using it to describe the behaviours one would have to have done to be...
Already you're mixing up the mode of identity being used. "part 1 is something going on in my skull". No it isn't. part 1 is a statement, what's going...
Indeed, on discovery of such a set of circumstances it would also be inappropriate to use the term 'bachelor', so there's no separation between approp...
Well then, as I've asked before, if circumstances of felicitous use don't give us the meaning of terms, what does? If I say that "to know" 'really' me...
There's no debate about what it means to be dead (or not much anyway). There's debate about what it means to know. No-one is arguing that your positio...
No. It's the same issue. 'Bachelor' is a term given to people who the user believes are unmarried and the who the user believes is a man. That is how ...
and @"fdrake" This is where things are currently at https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2017/12/30/240317.full.pdf We need a kind of AI to '...
Yep. And as such the JTB definition of knowledge is wrong, because that's not how anyone ever actually uses the word 'knowledge' in any actual context...
That's it. Now walk into a room you're familiar with and see if you have the same awareness of the wardrobe, the bed, the view out the window... I can...
Yeah, we could do it as a joint meditation exercise - has anyone got any patchouli? If I'm aware of my laptop keyboard I feel like it's there in front...
You're still ignoring context and trying to pin me down to one single meaning for expressions which clearly have different meanings in different conte...
Well I can't speak for @"Kenosha Kid"'s understanding (although I just did in my post to you, so... oops), but I think we can justifiably use the term...
No, they sound quite different to me, not sure how you got there from what I said. Try this. Jim: the weather in Barbados is sunny, it's always sunny ...
OK, so stop me if this gets too 'new age', but how do you judge whether you have awareness of something? I don't mean that as a philosophical question...
I never didn't get what the expression was trying to say. The expression "x must be an odd multiple of two" is a perfectly understandable expression t...
Yes, I get that. But since people don't have direct access to 'the actual weather' yet still use the expression "I know what the weather is like", inc...
Wouldn't it proving to be true but for the wrong reason just be better justifications? For me, if someone has a belief which is justified by reasons w...
As far as I'm concerned - spot on. Ha! Harpoon at the ready. I'd have to say yes, but perhaps not for the direct reasons that might at first seem a 'y...
What I 'missed' was any actual argument for your case beyond bland assertion. Go on then... Admitting the limits of our knowledge and acknowledging th...
Not in any way that actually matters. The effect of social media, the growing distrust of scientific institutions, the enormous lobbying power of corp...
No, this is a misrepresentation. @"Kenosha Kid" is not suggesting that we're 'looking' at images of flowers, the 'looking' is the name we give to the ...
I appreciate that, although, one of the useful quirks of writing here is to be so vehemently disagreed with. It's not something I get a lot of in real...
You saying (or writing) 'it is raining', in this context, is the same as saying that you believe it's raining. Imagine the situation in the real world...
It coveys a belief about a weather condition, not the actual weather condition (which is composed of atmospheric molecules). You seem to have just rep...
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