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Clarifications and terms (so we do not talk past each other) Before continuing, I want to clarify a few terms that can easily be misunderstood. What “...
January 17, 2026 at 14:48
Post 7 of 7: Gettier, and why “seems justified” can mislead Gettier cases are designed to make the traditional JTB account look inadequate. The famili...
January 17, 2026 at 14:44
Post 6 of 7: Hinges and why justification has stopping points At some point justificatory questions come to an end, not because inquiry has failed, bu...
January 17, 2026 at 14:41
Post 5 of 7: Five routes of justification (non exhaustive) In the paper I lay out five primary routes by which beliefs commonly acquire justificatory ...
January 17, 2026 at 14:33
Post 4 of 7: Three guardrails that discipline justification If justification is a standing within a practice, it still needs discipline. Not every cha...
January 17, 2026 at 14:25
Yes, it makes sense for you to participate, and I think your pragmatic approach can fit naturally with mine, as long as we keep the different uses of ...
January 17, 2026 at 14:21
Post 3 of 7: What “Understanding” is doing in JTB+U In JTB+U, “Understanding” is not a new mental ingredient added on top of truth, belief, and justif...
January 17, 2026 at 14:15
Post 2 of 7: What I mean by “justification” When I use the word “justification,” I am not talking about something private, a feeling of confidence, or...
January 17, 2026 at 13:58
You can comment as I go along, but many of the questions about what I mean by this or that will be explained in later posts.
January 17, 2026 at 13:46
The spine of my paper will be covered in seven posts. 1. What JTB+U is claiming 2. What I mean by justification as practice grammar 3. What “Understan...
January 17, 2026 at 13:36
Post #1 What JTB+U is claiming My paper defends a practice-oriented refinement of the traditional JTB account. I call it JTB+U: “justified true belief...
January 17, 2026 at 13:22
This premise isn't true. The key is that you said necessarily. To counter a necessity claim, I do not need to show that all morality is objective, or ...
January 17, 2026 at 12:33
Hello everyone, I'm writing to share that this will be my final post for a few months. I need to take a little break. Sam
October 19, 2025 at 05:43
Hello everyone, I'm writing to share that this will be my final post for a few months. I need a break. Sam
October 19, 2025 at 05:40
In other words, truth isn’t some hidden essence, it’s what happens when our justified beliefs line up with the facts of the world, or the way the worl...
October 18, 2025 at 14:33
In the framework I use, truth is not a metaphysical essence but a relation intrinsic to our practices of justification. To say a proposition is true i...
October 18, 2025 at 07:23
There are those who view AI as an epistemic tool, something that extends, rather than replaces human inquiry. There's a long list of people who fit th...
October 18, 2025 at 01:12
I won't comment on the political part of your post because I think we're very far apart. However, in the future I can see where humans will merge with...
October 17, 2025 at 17:47
If you take every idea with a grain of salt, you’ll never move beyond hesitation. Critical thinking isn’t about doubting everything, it’s about knowin...
October 17, 2025 at 15:52
Much of what all of us do is "parrot." Not many people can come up with an original idea to save their life.
October 17, 2025 at 15:11
It's already helped me expand my thinking on epistemology, and it gave me good ideas on my book. However, you do have to have prior knowledge because ...
October 17, 2025 at 14:58
Don't mistake the speculative misuse of ideas for the ideas themselves. AI is no longer in the realm of “mental masturbation,” it’s already reshaping ...
October 17, 2025 at 08:31
Truth is an emergent feature of linguistic and conceptual frameworks; it depends on the existence of propositions and shared criteria of correctness.
October 16, 2025 at 12:41
I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment. I used AI extensively while writing my book on NDEs and my work on epistemology. It was helpful for editi...
October 16, 2025 at 12:34
I think we agree, unless I've misunderstood. Epistemology is about justification, truth of beliefs, i.e., when a belief counts as knowledge or as rati...
October 13, 2025 at 03:52
I started by feeding all the material from my thread on NDEs into an AI tool to help compile and organize it into a coherent outline. From there, I us...
October 10, 2025 at 22:40
Your response does not belong in a thread on epistemology.
October 10, 2025 at 20:33
Post #9 Conclusion Justified True Belief Plus Understanding: A Wittgensteinian Extension Samuel L. Naccarato XIII. Conclusion — Epistemology Renewed T...
October 10, 2025 at 08:50
Post #8 Continuing with paper... Justified True Belief Plus Understanding: A Wittgensteinian Extension Samuel L. Naccarato XI. Progress, Regression, a...
October 10, 2025 at 08:47
Post #7 Continuing with paper... Justified True Belief Plus Understanding: A Wittgensteinian Extension Samuel L. Naccarato IX. Certainty and Probabili...
October 10, 2025 at 07:14
Post #6 Continuing with paper... Justified True Belief Plus Understanding: A Wittgensteinian Extension Samuel L. Naccarato VII. Guardrails and Routes ...
October 10, 2025 at 01:17
Post #5 Continuing with paper... Justified True Belief Plus Understanding: A Wittgensteinian Extension Samuel L. Naccarato VI. Grounding JTB+U: Hinges...
October 09, 2025 at 23:36
Post #4 Continuing with paper... Justified True Belief Plus Understanding: A Wittgensteinian Extension Samuel L. Naccarato V. JTB+U: Adding Understand...
October 09, 2025 at 17:39
Post #3 Continuing with paper... Justified True Belief Plus Understanding: A Wittgensteinian Extension Samuel L. Naccarato IV. The Limits of Classical...
October 09, 2025 at 11:14
Post #2 Continuing with paper... Justified True Belief Plus Understanding: A Wittgensteinian Extension Samuel L. Naccarato III. JTB in Practice—Streng...
October 09, 2025 at 09:48
I just finished my paper on epistemology which I'll post in here a section or two at a time. Post #1 Justified True Belief Plus Understanding: A Wittg...
October 09, 2025 at 02:48
That’s a fair point, and an important point. When I say that someone can parrot an explanation without getting it, I don’t mean that “getting” is a hi...
October 08, 2025 at 23:33
The following can't be overstated: We are entering an age in which the very conditions of knowing are being rewritten. Information now multiplies fast...
October 08, 2025 at 19:56
I'm currently writing a paper to make more explicit my view on the epistemology of JTB+U, and the following is a portion of that paper. The endurance ...
October 06, 2025 at 23:35
Let's add more depth: You are correct that understanding is already implicit in JTB. The classical model could never function without it, for to justi...
October 06, 2025 at 23:14
It’s true that understanding (U) has always been presupposed in talk about knowledge, but presupposition is not the same as articulation. Classical JT...
October 06, 2025 at 22:46
The Wittgensteinian Toolkit If metaphysics provides the horizon of intelligibility, Wittgenstein’s later philosophy supplies the instruments for navig...
October 06, 2025 at 19:22
How Epistemology Can Help Align AI A Wittgensteinian JTB+U Framework for Responsible Intelligence Introduction: Fear Without Framework One of the grea...
October 04, 2025 at 22:01
One of the recurring problems in AI research is the ambiguity of “knowledge.” Systems can be designed to store facts, to process probabilities, or to ...
October 04, 2025 at 21:24
I think you’re right to warn against reifying “truth” into a thing with different guises. Wittgenstein’s reminder is well taken: meaning is use, and e...
October 04, 2025 at 20:15
I think we’re converging on a similar point. I would agree that “truth” does not wear a single face. Its criteria shift depending on the language-game...
October 04, 2025 at 15:44
Just to reiterate... Probability and the Varieties of Certainty One common source of confusion in epistemology is the place of probability. Some treat...
October 04, 2025 at 14:31
Probabilistic reasoning does not yield absolute certainty (sense 4: logical/moral necessity). It is not the kind of certainty we find in “2+2=4” or “m...
October 04, 2025 at 14:18
The following is a point of clarity. There are four uses of certainty that we need to be aware of, and they are the following: 1. Subjective certainty...
October 04, 2025 at 13:20