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There is much here to agree with, but on the other hand, there are philosophies that grow out of some of the analyses done that need (I believe), in o...

If analyzing concepts isn't a matter of linguistic analysis, then what is it? Concepts by definition are linguistic, and definitions arise through use...

Correct, Plantinga never discusses basic beliefs in terms of nonlinguistic beliefs. Nonlinguistic beliefs wouldn't fall under the category of epistemo...

This discussion would take us far away from the thrust of this thread. Suffice it to say that I don't believe, because I don't think there is sufficie...

I agree with this, i.e., there is no neat way of mapping this. It's like trying to map out what pornography is, like the Supreme Court said, I know it...

I would agree, but would compare direct with indirect experiences. The best way to examine these kinds of experiences is to examine context driven exp...

Explain this statement, I don't follow.

I suppose a direct experience might be something like the following: Standing in front of my oak tree in my back yard, as opposed to looking at the sa...

When I speak of psychology in this (context you quoted) context, I'm speaking of mental and emotional contexts that arise from particular beliefs. I'm...

I'll use Wittgenstein's examples to partly answer these questions. Wittgenstein argues against Moore's use of the word know in the proposition "I know...

I think I understand what you're saying, although it seems like a strange way to say it (using the word "prompt"). I would say that our sensory experi...

Ya, he would say something like that. Years ago I went to a couple of conferences and listened to Plantinga give lectures on this topic. I think it wa...

I know he claims that, but I'm saying that it's not the same as the kind of experiences we have with one another. The kind of experiences we have with...

I haven't read everything in this thread, so if duplicate some of what's already been mentioned forgive the laziness. Plantinga's properly basic belie...

Banno?

Roughly, there has to be some consistency of memory and experience to be able to say that that person is Elvis. Memory and one's experiences create a ...

This is a video documentary showing the commonality of NDEs. It's over an hour long, but worth watching. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uDA4RgHolw&t...

In my view there are two senses of justification. First, there's what we mean by justification, viz., having good reasons or good evidence, etc. Secon...

Fiveredapples has given an eloquent defense of his position, but my position is much simpler. I'm sticking to JTB as the definition of knowledge. I do...

I don't understand this mcdoodle, the whole subject revolves around the idea of beliefs, if we're not talking about foundational or bedrock beliefs, w...

By now everyone should know Russell's stopped clock example as a counter to JTB. Fiveredapples has laid out the problem very well. I'm going to try an...

You're right I do want to argue that JTB doesn't fail as a definition. I want to separate the definition from it's actual application, i.e., the defin...

False premises can and do lead to true conclusions, as was shown in the argument. The real question is about justification.

This idea that Gettier somehow showed that JTB is flawed is just not the case. It's as if Gettier performed a slight of hand and people think it refut...

I believe Five that a form of your argument can be used against Gettier. Gettier's examples fail to either be properly justified, or not true. I've al...

Nice to hear from you again fiveredapples.

I'm not really writing to debate with people on this subject. Although I'll entertain a challenge or two. I'm just writing to explain what I've gleane...

We just disagree when it comes to knowledge as a skill. I have to move on, I don't want to get stuck on that particular disagreement.

Let me say a few more things about basic or bedrock beliefs, and I'm mainly thinking of prelinguistic or nonlinguistic beliefs. First, Moore's claim t...

The reason I brought this subject up, is that not only are there beliefs that are non-linguistic, there is also knowledge that's nonlinguistic (knowle...

That's my point - knowledge as a skill is different from knowledge as a belief - as you point out.

There is knowledge as a belief, and there is knowledge as a skill. We can observe knowledge as a skill, for example, tying your shoes, but there are m...

Hello Mcdoodle. Prelinguistic is just a way of talking about particular kinds of beliefs "wedded" to actions apart from linguistic actions. I agree th...

I'll continue tomorrow.

That's probably the case. However, others become aware of these kinds of prelinguistic beliefs by observation, but only if they have the concept of be...

Actually Harry this is a pretty good summary of some of my thoughts. I've been trying to work on a theory of epistemology based on some of these ideas...

Some of this is going to be difficult to understand, especially if you have not studied Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, or especially if ...

Guys and gals, I'm a little slow with my typing due to 'essential tremors,' so please don't take offense if I don't answer all of the questions/commen...

Hello fdrake. My next post is going to talk more about the structure, and what the structure is. It's not unique, in fact, it's quite familiar to us. ...

If you were familiar with Wittgenstein's bedrock propositions in his notes called On Certainty, you would know that I'm not asking the question that y...

I don't have a particularly good attitude towards Christianity either, but Wittgenstein would never make such remark. Moreover, he would never say tha...

During Wittgenstein's lifetime he published the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, a children's dictionary, and a lecture on ethics. However, the Philoso...

There are obvious limitations to logic. First, not every premise within an argument can be proven, or shown by inference to be true. Knowledge using l...

I do, I wasn't being sarcastic. I didn't read all the posts. I just read a couple of posts.

Okay, fair enough.

There are many things that we know are the case without knowing why it's the case. We know for example that quantum entanglement is a fact (it is the ...

There are at least two ways of being certain for Wittgenstein. There is the subjectively certain, which expresses an inner conviction, often we use th...

When Wittgenstein talks about certainty in connection with the "spirit" he's referring to the idea that there is some transcendent certainty or knowin...

As a matter of fact, Wittgenstein plays an important part in my epistemology. Consider where I talk about the many uses of the word know, which is tak...

Robert Kuhn and Sam Parnia have a short talk about consciousness and the death of the body. The following is my response to the talk. https://www.yout...