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Calling this “fancy wordplay” misunderstands what I’m doing. I’m not juggling synonyms; I’m tightening the spec for when “I know” is actually warrante...

I've been working on epistemology, via Wittgenstein, for some time, and the following is my take on epistemology using Wittgensteinian methods. I beli...

You're wrong about this, which shows you haven't read much on the subject. There are millions of accounts, and thousands have been corroborated. How m...

You make several claims here, but much of it is based on assumptions rather than established fact. I will address your points one by one. First, on ha...

Actually some of your criticisms about hallucinations are correct. I have to do more proof reading and editing. However, other criticisms I disagree w...

The argument doesn't stand or fall on that analogy, but it does seem to fit the testimonial evidence.

I'm not sure, but I was thinking of adding not only a chapter that answers the critics, but a chapter that includes a fictional courtroom debate. It w...

Deleted - wrong thread. lol

You seem to be arguing that because the brain is complex, consciousness must be a function of the brain. It could just mean that complexity is needed ...

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You say you “can be proven wrong” because if there’s life after death, you’ll find out. But that’s not the same as being epistemically open to being p...

It's an inductive argument, I don't know with absolute certainty, but I know with a high degree of confidence that we survive. Janus, you’re basically...

I wouldn't be writing a book if I hadn't thought through this material.

But NDEs don’t claim the brain is useless, they suggest that in certain extreme conditions, consciousness can occur without normal brain activity. Tha...

You obviously haven't been paying attention to my argument. You’re assuming from the outset that consciousness surviving clinical death is extraordina...

Right—and pretending only “expert, peer-reviewed testimony” counts is a neat way to dodge the actual issue. We rely on multiple classes of testimony a...

When someone tells me that NDEs aren't evidence,” I know we’re not having an epistemological discussion, we’re dealing with a preset worldview that re...

Some of the "Buddhist model" is based on NDEs and meditative states of consciousness, only they don't call it an NDE. NDE states can be reached withou...

Yes, but the idea of personhood remains intact.

In chapter 5, I consider other possible conclusions. Personhood, as I see it, encompasses the core elements of self: identity, memories, relationships...

Whenever you can corroborate testimonial evidence, it's not anecdotal. Part of the problem is that most people aren't able to evaluate testimonial evi...

Part 2 of Chapter 4 Section 6: Cultural Conditioning and Belief System Arguments Another common objection suggests that NDE consistency results from c...

The following is chapter 4, but I'll still be tweaking it a bit before I release the book, probably in October. Chapter 4 addresses common criticisms ...

The following is a summary of some of what I cover in my book, which by the way is about 95% complete. I'm looking at NDEs from an epistemological sta...

The 1992 Gallup poll estimated that 5% of Americans had experienced NDEs, suggesting 13-15 million cases in the United States alone. A 2024 Scientific...

You want me to argue with you, but you don't understand basic logic. Moreover, you don't take the time to carefully read the thread or do basic resear...

Your critique of my work reflects a surprisingly limited and elitist perspective on philosophy, misrepresenting both this discussion and the epistemol...

No two experiences, whether NDEs or everyday perceptions, are ever exactly identical, even among people sharing the same event in the same moment. Eve...

At the end of chapter 3 of my book, I give the following inductive argument with premises and a conclusion. Chapter 3 has much more depth to it than I...

Just read any good logic book, and it will explain inductive reasoning. There are weak inductive arguments and strong inductive arguments depending on...

That's the rough draft of the first chapter of my book. It's not an argument. In chapter 3, I'll make the inductive argument. In chapter 2, I set up t...

I replied the way I did because of comments like the one I quoted above. I guess anyone who studies a subject for 20, 30, or 40 years could be called ...

Thanks, but that was just the 'Preliminary' material, i.e., the setup for the book. The actual argument is in chapter 3. About 10% of NDEs are negativ...

You wouldn't know philosophy if it jumped up and bit you.

Ya, I understand.

Thank you, Banno. This book has been on my mind for years, but I've finally made real headway. I now have a full rough draft of the eBook completed. I...

For those of you interested, this is a draft of the opening chapter of my book examining NDEs through rigorous philosophical analysis. The complete dr...

My use of JTB isn't traditional; it's tied to Wittgenstein's language games and his thinking on "hinges" in OC. I wrote a paper recently that addresse...

A word about defining consciousness. Consciousness isn't a definable object or property, but a grammatical background (grammar in a Wittgensteinian se...

No, I haven't published, but if you go back and look at my thread 'On Certainty', you'll see that I mentioned this about a year ago. I don't always re...

Wittgenstein was skeptical of Gödel’s theorem, and it seems that the disagreement, as far as I understand, was largely due to what appears to be a mis...

I don't think AI could have made such a connection. I made this connection more than a year ago, possibly longer, and the AI available at the time sur...

Both Wittgenstein and Gödel were investigating questions related to completeness. Wittgenstein was asking whether epistemic practices could be complet...

Much of this has little to do with OC.

Wittgenstein’s form of life refers to shared practices, behaviors, and instinctive foundations that make meaning possible, and this is true whether cu...

I have some general ideas, but right now I'm trying to finish a book I'm working on. I'm not sure what you mean by "...there can be nothing in common ...

Thanks. What I would like to do is develop an epistemology based on JTB, but with a Wittgensteinian twist - for example, demonstrating how our methods...

I decided to put my paper in this thread where it belongs. The paper tends to be a bit more precise than my general comments in this thread and elsewh...

Thanks @"ssu" for the compliment. There are some really interesting ideas to pursue in these posts, especially as they relate to my interest in episte...

Thank you for the thought-provoking response. Your subjective-objective distinction, self-referentiality, and the market pricing example adds to the d...