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Did you mean "simplifying"? I have always hated the physicalites of writing and typing, and so have developed a somewhat telegraphic style intended to...

No, that's not all he needs, and that is my whole point. From "defeasibly p", (p v q) does not follow. In logic a thing follows or it doesn't; there i...

You're not alone, and I wish I could make clearer to others what is very clear to me. The argument is that if S has a justified belief p, then by pure...

Yeah, there are people like that. They don't run the country, though, they don't represent a consensus of feminism even, and they are therefore straw ...

Get him to read The Lathe of Heaven, Ursula LeGuin, one of my favouritest bookses.

No. I realised I was in a precarious position and paused to consider - left, right, up, down, but not for too long, as the longer you stay in a strain...

Many years ago I took a trip to the Cornish seaside with some friends - LSD it was. So I was scrambling about on the rocks, wondering if the sea shape...

Either it's in sleep mode, or it's being provocative.

This cannot be real. You are motivated to question, and aspire to answers. Congratulations! The real is that from which you cannot awaken, that to whi...

Weasel words these, if you don't mind my saying. If I'm right about something, probability no longer applies. If improbably I have the winning lottery...

Indeed, and this is really annoying. If justified true belief does not amount to knowledge, then what the eff is knowledge and what does amount to it?...

Indeed, the whole idea is that such a formulation is necessarily true. Because otherwise S is only reasoning about his beliefs and giving substance to...

So, I think we agree that "S believes p" does not imply "p". And if we can see that as reasonable people, Smith should also see it as a reasonable per...

Well you have set up the beginning of a Gettier; Smith reads the study and believes that coffee causes cancer, a JFB. And then he sets up a connected ...

You may be right. I'm just exploring, but the way you tell it, I don't see Max as much of a problem. But I agree that there is a problem with JTB anyw...

Favour us with a less artificial example, you have my attention.

If Smith has a justified belief that the glass contains water, why would he want to think, claim or believe that it contains water or vodka? He wouldn...

My view is that you don't test it because it's a matter of pure logic. Science doesn't formulate unconnected disjunctions and then try and establish w...

That has been my justified belief for some time. ;)

Strike 'nonsense', replace with 'bullshit'.

Gotcha. But that's not what I'm doing there. I've got three different voices, belief, reality and logic. Logic does not believe anything but tautologi...

I don't understand your notation. What's B?

Yes it does. It expresses the part of the story where Gettier infallibly tells us That Smith is wrong about Jones owning a Ford. It's like when God sa...

You can do what you like in your diary, or blog, dude. It's when you want me to read stuff or publish it or respond to it that you have to take accoun...

S believes {1. p , 2. (p v q)} Reality {3. ¬p , 4. (¬p v q)} Logic (p v q) & (¬p v q) ? q In a way, this is an ancient problem; Descartes was looking ...

I'm not sure, but I think it gets you ((probably p) v q) and not (probably( p v q)). Help me out a bit here, but I don't think either is sufficient fo...

2. p ? p ? q you can keep with my blessing, along with the other rules of inference, because you don't have "p", you only have "probably p" which does...

Yes yes, premise 1 is p, the disjunction applies, and explosion happens such that Smith believes anything and anything because with authorial infallib...

Smith's belief that Jones owns a Ford is false, Gettier insists. Jones does not own a Ford.

So what?

Yes, you could use probably and possibly instead. I think the superposition idea is a neat way of doing it, but if we go your way, we have something l...

2b. Believably (p v q) but conceivably (¬p v q) That might be more fun.

No that won't do. Firstly, it is more like your 3 than your 1. And secondly, they could both have been true. That makes perfect sense to me, because w...

Yes, I'm with you. So now we bracket that... S believes { 1. p 2. p ? p ? q 3. p ? q 4. p ? q ? ¬p ? q 5. ¬p ? q 6. p ? ¬p ? q) } 7. ¬p (Gettier's sti...

Definitely the former. Part of the ethics of therapy is that the therapist should make clear from the outset, the limits of his support. So one might ...

I think it's called "Gettier" ;) . I'll try and formalise things as best I can. On your side, we have: a. If p then (p v q). And on my side, we have: ...

That's an implication of p, that I am questioning. Look at the implications of the disjunction that I put to you.

Let's not. Let's look at the formal implications of a disjunction that I laid out and you ignored.

Yes. I believe Trump is, and Clinton is not. Or to use your informal locution, I believe that one of Trump and Clinton (namely Trump) is president. Bu...

So you believe it's Bill, and you don't believe it's Ted. But should it turn out that Bill is not yours, because your wife had an affair, you do not t...

Two kids, Bill and Ted. One of them is yours. If it's not Ted, it must be Bill, and if it's not Bill, it must be Ted. Exactly so. which is to say it i...

Then I must be an unreasonable person, because I think that to reason thus: "Probably A, but if not A then definitely B" is cuckoo.

Because the disjunction is explicitly saying that one or other may be false. So it does not say p is true it says p might be false, but in case p is f...

Now do it with false.

I don't think you can. Smith's belief that "at least one of two statements, 1 and 2, is true" is not the same as the belief that "statement1 and/or st...

Indeed, I understand and accept your conjunction as phrased in the first sentence, because there is a connection made between the statements mentioned...

I believe that there is no connection between the name of the capital of England and the aerial abilities of pigs. So I believe you are making an unju...

Michael knows what this means: (c) If unenlightened does the rain dance, it will rain tomorrow. He also believes it and believes it is justified (beca...

This exemplifies the male bias of the site, with it's clear reference to the erect penis. I suggest you illustrate your interest instead with a moist,...

Looking at that account through the lens of our current concerns, it is perhaps significant that the account of the crisis involves a dissociation fro...