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Ah. I had it as both. I considered that to be the distinction between justifications and reasons, the latter can't be post hoc but the former can... I...

That can be done (I don't consider myself anti-realist). It doesn't change the meaning of 'true' in JTB. I'm arguing that 'true' just means the same a...

Exactly. There's this assumption that once one has two risk figures the decision is clear, as if humans take nothing else into account in their decisi...

Yep. Agreed. You seem to be assuming that if two speech act mean the same thing on one context, they must mean the same thing in every context. The fi...

No I'm interpreting the claim "John is a bachelor iff John is a man and John is unmarried" as the claim "John is a bachelor iff the language community...

People who are trying to harm you and people who happen to harm you because they are wrong are two very different categories of people. This seems to ...

This is now the third time I've pointed out the context of that partial quote. If you don't understand, you can just ask, but please don't keep dising...

How can an expression convey a weather condition? Weather conditions are made of atmospheric molecules? You seem on the one hand to want to talk in th...

No I didn't. As I clarified in my previous post... A 'bachelor' is not a thing outside of language community declaring it to be a thing - felicitous u...

Ahh yes, civilised internment against their will. "Would you mind awfully if we imprisoned you for a few weeks?...cup of tea?" 'Cos people are forever...

No, I'm arguing that what we can infer from a claim and what it means are intrinsically linked. The argument is to say that if they meant different th...

I said there is nothing more to the 'meaning' of bachelor than it's felicitous use and you respond by saying the language community can be wrong about...

Oh yes, I forgot to mention... I'm not interested in the opinions of any "crazed conspiracy theorists" who disagree with me about the health status of...

Of course. The same sentence means different things in different contexts. Sometimes "I know x!" means "shut up, stop reminding me that x!"

That's the matter in question, so asserting it isn't an argument in favour of it. I was referring to the meaning of the word 'bachelor'. It has no mea...

An expression like "it's raining" can be used without the prefix " I think...", or "I believe", because it's part of the language game of making claim...

Ah, so "most victims are anti-vax Trump supporters and brought it on themselves" is just harmless schadenfreude How about "most victims are overweight...

At which point it's no longer true that your entire language community believes John is a bachelor. You asked about the interpretation of a claim and ...

There's two issues. The first is about language and refers your second question. To whom are you going to say it? In what context? Your entire languag...

They can indeed. My claim wasn't about their correctness. My claim was about felicitous use. The entire claim here has nothing to do with whether I or...

Yes, and if everyone starts using 'bachelor' of John despite his obviously being a woman and married, then it's the meaning of the word 'bachelor that...

No. It depends on what the language community around me believes. Agreed. I don't know how you've ended up thinking I don't believe I can be wrong. I'...

There's nothing more to John being a bachelor than my felicitously using the term 'bachelor'. There's no God of languages checking the 'truly' correct...

Not quite. I'd interpret the claim as... John is a bachelor iff: 1) My language community generally believe that John is a man, and 2) My language com...

I think it does. I'm deflationary about truth. "It's raining" and "I believe it's raining" are just two ways of saying the same thing. In many context...

If propositions are not speech acts, then where are they used? Do we mime them? Communicate them through the means of interpretive dance? How do we no...

So what I mean when I say 'I know x' is 'I believe x', 'I have justification for believing x' and 'x is an independent fact'? What I mean when I say '...

But since you cannot ascertain whether it is an independent fact that I had toast this morning (by your own admission), your claim 'l know you had toa...

I asked how you ascertain whether I had toast this morning and your answer requires that you first know whether I had toast this morning. Try answerin...

Then the JTB account is clearly wrong because we use the term 'knowledge' all the time and yet can never ascertain that the beliefs therein are 'true'...

How would you ascertain I had toast for breakfast, other than by your justifications for believing I had toast for breakfast?

But... if one has a justified true belief then one has ascertained that one's belief is true. ...unarguably. So what's 'justified' doing?

Really? Then I strongly suggest you seek some professional psychological help. If you're seriously asking whether you should be pleased that thousands...

OK, so 1. if one has a justified true belief then one has ascertained that one's belief is true 2. if one has a justified true belief then one has asc...

if one has a true belief then one has ascertained that one's belief is true. The above is a meaningless tautology, yes? So the only thing added is the...

So a belief that's well justified is 'true'? Then what purpose does 'true' serve in 'Justified True Belief', that is not satisfied by 'Justified Belie...

Go on... (this doesn't seem to be a complete answer to the question of how I ascertain that it's raining other than by survey of my beliefs)

Sums up how the thread has gone... "I'll only respond to people who already agree with me"

How do you ascertain this other than by survey of your beliefs about whether it's raining?

Note the position of the quotation marks. If 'I know it's raining' is taken to be a claim about both my mental state, and the world, then it can be fa...

That's not what I claimed though. I claimed "it's raining" means the same as 'I believe "it's raining" - note the location of the quotations, I've tri...

So... 'I know it's raining' is to mean... 'I believe it's raining' ,... 'I'm justified in that belief' ,... and 'it's raining' . But that means that t...

I agree. But 'I know' doesn't seem to be properly of either kind, using a JTB definition. You say that 'I know it's raining' is different to 'I believ...

How do we determine what the 'strict meaning' of a sentence is outside of its use?

So, if you ask 'where's the pub?' and I say 'I think it's at the end of the road', I'm implying that my belief is neither justified nor true? If so, w...

Indeed. But that's not the question I asked. To use your example, how does... 1. I thought I knew that aliens exist, but aliens don't exist ...differ ...

Take P1 to be 'I know the earth is flat'. We'd like to be able to say P2 'I thought I knew the earth is flat, but I was wrong, the earth is not flat'....

To be honest we could leave it there. I've no interest in convincing anyone of the rightness of my beliefs on this, but there may be some interest in ...

So no intention of either defending, nor apologising for your slanderous baseless assertions. Just more childish hyperbole.

Let's be clear about what's happened here. I've cited an article about the policy response to covid by an expert in health policy. You didn't agree wi...