The problem with your account is that it tries to dismiss epistemology while simultaneously advancing an epistemological thesis. To say that “truth is...
That claim is self-contradictory under the way I’m defining these terms. Absolute certainty means knowledge held with 100% confidence, without the pos...
Much of our knowledge comes through testimony (books, lectures, person-to-person, etc). Testimony is often undervalued and misunderstood. Every area o...
Family Resemblances and the Grammar of Knowledge If one lesson can be taken from Wittgenstein’s later philosophy, it is that the search for an essence...
If I say “I know how you feel because I too have lost a parent”, then the structure does fit JTB: Truth: it is true that I have felt grief of that sor...
It may be objected that nothing truly novel is added by the ‘+U.’ Some have held that unless a person grasps the concepts at work, their justification...
If this is what you think I'm doing, then you haven't understood anything I've said. My impression @"frank" is that you haven't read my posts in the l...
If knowledge is just confidence in one's belief, then one's confidence/conviction that one knows would suffice, that can't be correct. Sure, we can be...
It makes sense to say the man thinks he knows, but he doesn’t. This is something we see all the time: people confuse what they believe with what they ...
For JTB+U to be viable as a framework, it has to work more often than not. If the framework only rarely connected belief with truth, it would collapse...
That is the way some pushback on this idea, but I think the apparent arbitrariness disappears once we distinguish between (a) the framework for knowle...
That question rests on a misunderstanding of what knowledge is. It assumes that unless I can be sure of my beliefs in the sense of absolute, indubitab...
On the first point: understanding is not the same as justification. Justification is the giving of reasons that satisfy the standards of a language-ga...
My system fixes the regression problem. I said that "there are periods of regression," just as there are periods where one thinks that a particular co...
I agree that narratives of inevitable progress, whether Enlightenment or later, tend to oversimplify. Knowledge does not advance in a straight line. T...
By the way, I've finished my first book, and I'm starting my second book called "Why Christianity Fails (Weak Testimony, Fragile Evidence, and the Col...
On my account, moral knowledge is possible in the same way any knowledge is possible: it requires truth, belief, justification, and understanding, sit...
When Wittgenstein uses “know” epistemically, his examples remain squarely within the orbit of what the tradition would call justified true belief. He ...
The craving for generality: Wittgenstein warned against the philosopher’s temptation to seek a single formula that captures the essence of every case....
Bridge: From JTB+U to Hinges Even with justification clarified and understanding secured, the model of JTB+U does not by itself remove the regress pro...
Continuing the Explanation of JTB+U To extend the picture, I need to clarify what the “+U” adds, how justification itself must be situated in language...
My account of JTB+U is not the same as traditional JTB, it's more refined using Wittgenstein's methods from his later thinking. I'll partly sum it up ...
There are uses of know that don't fit the JTB account, but I would maintain they're not epistemic uses. Are you saying that there are epistemic uses t...
And yet today it is common to hear people speak as though knowledge is simply whatever they take knowledge to be. To put it more sharply: many equate ...
Another important aspect of this epistemology comes from Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations: knowledge is not something we locate inwardly, a...
I don’t think I can overestimate how important epistemology is in evaluating beliefs and systems of belief, especially in our modern society where we’...
I would put it this way: the real issue lies in how we understand justification. It is more than simply a person thinking they are justified. Genuine ...
I'm going to repeat my position on Gettier because people seem to think it has weight. The so-called “Gettier problem” rests on a sleight of hand. It ...
To be honest I'm not sure I would agree with my point back then. I'd have to give it more thought. I do appreciate that at least you were trying to re...
Wow, you went back a bit to find that. I would phrase that a bit differently now, but it's off the main topic, which is an epistemology following Witt...
What Is Knowledge? A Clear Explanation In my view, knowledge is more than just a correct guess or a strong feeling. I define it using a framework call...
I don’t really see a problem here. First, most of our knowledge is probabilistic, so if new evidence comes into the picture, it overturns what we beli...
What On Certainty Can Teach Us About AI When I read Wittgenstein’s On Certainty, I can’t help but think about how it touches on questions we’re now fa...
We can doubt many things. I can doubt whether my watch is accurate, whether a friend has told the truth, or whether tomorrow’s forecast will hold. The...
What you don't understand is that I don't care whether others take me seriously. If I cared about being taken seriously, I wouldn't have posted in thi...
I could write it out, but my argument doesn't depend on this Bayesian framework. Most people won't understand it anyway. What I think is funny is that...
No, it's just a quote about what the patient was claiming. Good questions, I appreciate that. Let's unpack these one by one, because while they sound ...
Based on my inductive argument and evidential foundation in Chapter 3 of my book, we can derive a rough probabilistic estimate for the survival of con...
In Gaming Definition: Any character in a game world not controlled by a human player. Control: Their actions, dialogue, and behavior are scripted or d...
Of course, the NPC hypothesis is just speculative, but if we are living in a kind of simulation, which I believe, then it's certainly within the realm...
My book will probably be released in about six to eight weeks. It's much more detailed, and it's unique in that I look at the evidence from an epistem...
If the probability is, say, 50/50, I would agree, but the probability is high based on the evidence. Most of our knowledge is probabilistic, but we do...
The following is a summary of the argument in my book. Inductive Argument for the Survival of Consciousness This argument proceeds inductively, drawin...
Those of you lurking in the shadows, popcorn in hand, let's cut through the noise for a second. You've been watching this back-and-forth, and if you'r...
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