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I was very hesitant to put down very specific qualifications because I didn't want push people away from the discussion.

Yes, this is definitely what I'm looking for, but I'm also interested in how you think about philosophy of language, viz., its shortcomings and its be...

For me, most, if not many of these problems are about the concepts used. However, that's not to say that there aren't problems that are not part of wh...

I'm looking for people who have given significant thought to the issues, but I don't want to keep people out of the discussion. I say this to give som...

Ya, it would be interesting to divide the problems up into various kinds.

You won't get much disagreement from me on this, but I do believe many problems are clarified or dissolved, many more than people realize. The questio...

If you don't understand this point, then you don't understand the difference between a claim to knowledge, and having knowledge. One's claim is not eq...

"Not my idea... Actually against the position I've been arguing for..." Then I don't know what you're talking about, and I don't think anyone else doe...

As I've explained before, this is not quite accurate, i.e., that I believe that justified belief is what's argued for. What I disagree with Creative a...

You're conflating one's statement that something is true, or is a piece of knowledge, with the definition of knowledge. When someone states that he or...

Here's an interesting NDEs... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK73CZKfWFE

I agree with Hanover. You can make these kinds of statements mean whatever you want without context. Apart from a context, they are just words. So wha...

Yes, they can exist in two forms, as propositions/statements, or as something prelinguistic. When they are prelinguistic the beliefs manifest themselv...

Obviously you have have propositions apart from beliefs, i.e., as a statement standing alone, which is why I said that it's a belief if I assert it as...

Maybe I could word this a bit better. All propositional claims that something is or is not the case, i.e., that someone asserts as either being true o...

Some of these questions seem like homework questions. Just wondering.

I guess the problem happened when you said the following: "It is also my understanding that Witt never found what he was looking for(a single hinge pr...

I think there is an important misunderstanding going on here. Religion is a kind of philosophy (a religious world view), any kind of world view, be it...

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There are many different skeptical arguments that find their way into the thinking of people, some are justified, some are not. I don't think many of ...

Although I think we agree on some things. In terms of Wittgenstein and what he's saying, we are very far apart, especially on the idea of what hinge-p...

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First, OC is not meant to support the notion of JTB. That's not to say there aren't examples of JTB in his notes. I don't know of any interpretation o...

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The answers you get from people on this forum are probably going to reflect their bias toward a particular interpretation. I would read as much backgr...

Yes, any language by definition is social due to the nature of rule-following, which is part of the point of Wittgenstein's private language argument....

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It's true that many people make claims to knowledge based on subjective criteria, but that doesn't make it knowledge. If someone claims to know X, you...

I agree there is a connection between the pain we feel and how we learn to use the word pain. However, note that in order to learn to use the word cor...

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We definitely use visualizations, but I'm not sure animals do, maybe. I'd be interested in the evidence that suggests that animals use visualizations....

This just isn't true. In fact, there is much in Wittgenstein's thinking that is just unconventional. Hinge-propositions are not propositions in the co...

You're conflating learning to use the word pain with feeling the sensation of pain. We don't learn to use the word pain based on our private sensation...

When talking about prelinguistic beliefs actions are the only indicators of a belief. There is no other way to say that a human or animal has a belief...

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My epistemological theory Creative only requires that there be prelinguistic beliefs of a certain kind, and what gives life to these belief are our ac...

People want to know if a belief is true, there's nothing more natural. Does God exist? Does God not exist? Is one belief better than another, or are a...

Sorry, I should have realized that that was your example, my mistake. I did read this a while back. So we have some prelinguistic human, or even an an...

Creative, I don't see where you explained what a well-grounded prelinguistic belief is. We agree that there are prelinguistic beliefs. Give an example...

I agree, we express beliefs all the time that can be justified, or that are well-grounded, without putting forth the reasons or evidence for those bel...

Yes, I agree.

I'm adding numbers to your statements to make it easier. Your first premise: I agree that a belief can exist prior to language. Your second premise: F...

That's funny. :grin:

If you want to understand the word nothing, then simply look at how it's used in ordinary sentences. There is nothing mysterious about the use of the ...

I thought I would add the following Creative... There is some agreement between my position on this subject, and what Creative is inferring. However, ...

I think the experiences of NDEs goes beyond consciousness filling in the gaps based on cultural experiences. There are just to many NDEs that demonstr...