PL Olcott

The sum total of all analytical human knowledge is simply a {semantic tautology} a set of self-evident truths. We create new knowledge in a way that i...

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, lays eggs like a duck and does everything else just like a duck it could still possibly be a space alien ...

x := y means x is defined to be another name for y https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_logic_symbols This seem to be the only way that we get actual...

If there is a difference then this might be a discernable difference. If there is NO difference then entails that THERE IS NO discernable difference.

That is my thoughts exactly, yet so far we have not even done this to the actual Liar Paradox itself: "This sentence is not true." When we formalize t...

Here is his actual proof of that theorem: https://liarparadox.org/Tarski_275_276.pdf You seem to have the same passion for this subject that I do.

My paraphrase of that is "existence exists right now". If all of our memories are fake then we cannot be sure that we really know how to do first grad...

The key innovation of my seven years of full time work is that an analytical expression of formal or natural language is only true when it has a seman...

If there is no difference between reality and a simulation of reality then no difference can be discerned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_(religio...

Apparently truthmaker theory answers this question. I just found out that all of my ideas for the last seven years have been anchored in truthmaker th...

I only want to be fair and accurate in my assessment yet it seems that you are saying something like 5 - 0 = 5 is not true.

Otherwise you say we know nothing, which is again, the abandonment of epistemology. — Philosophim I changed my view to this on the basis of the above:...

You can "know" empirical things to a reasonably plausible degree that is less than logically justified complete certainty. The key empirical thing is ...

When JTB is augmented such that the justification guarantees the truth of the belief then this makes Gettier cases impossible. Although this seems int...

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I am reaffirming my point. I use self-evident truths as the basis of my reasoning. Self-evidence In epistemology (theory of knowledge), a self-evident...

If you are telling a difference when it is stipulated that there is no difference to tell then you cannot possibly be telling the truth.

We cannot possibly know that we have actual truth on the synthetic side of the analytic synthetic distinction. If we assume that we can we are deceivi...

Without the qualified mapping that I propose Buddhist enlightenment is impossible because societal conditioning is construed as actual truth rather th...

Within the model of the actual world we can know the stipulated relations between elements because the model of the actual world is an axiomatic syste...

If they assume that all apples are red without seeing all apples then they are wrong even if their assumption is correct. I will count on gravity as l...

To conclude that all swans are white on the basis of some swans are white is flat out incorrect and there cannot possibly be two ways about this.

Fair Witness https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Fair%20Witness That house on the hilltop--can you see what color they've painted it?" Ann...

Inductive logic would simply (possibly incorrectly) guess that it is a duck.

A theory or hypothesis is falsifiable (or refutable) if it can be logically contradicted by an empirical test. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiab...

From their frame-of-reference they could see the Sun cross the sky thus saying they they see the Sun cross the sky is accurate. This seems to preclude...

It is like the statement that people that are very much overweight are never way too thin. The meaning of the word "knowledge" requires that it be tru...

You are disputing this. Most everyone knows that ALL knowledge must be true or instead of knowledge we have false presumptions.

That is great

It was the key thing that was in dispute with

Another respondent provided a simpler example. You see what you believe is a cat yet it is actually a space alien perfectly disguised as a cat, it eve...

If you "know" something that turns out to be false, then you never knew it and only incorrectly presumed it.

It was not a justified true belief such that the belief is a necessary consquence of its justification until you know it is a tree. Prior to that it w...

If it is true that much of what we think of as knowledge isn’t actually knowledge then we must accept that as it is. We are free to create an alternat...

Because of the brain-in-a-vat thought experiment and that it is understood that solipsism cannot be definitely refuted any "knowledge" obtained from w...

Within my augmentation of JTB that requires the belief to be a necessary consequence of its justification Gettier is abolished. This causes all synthe...

"The trick then is how do we construct this system of reasoning to be more rational and the best chance to be as close to truth as possible?" Yes that...

I went back through what you said and your position seems to be that because there are cases where we cannot possibly confirm that a belief is definit...

It seems to be the exact same position that the {alternative facts} people push so that they can get away with disinformation. --- Conway's use of the...

"Truth cannot be a necessary component of knowledge." How so? That seems to me to be perfectly analogous to saying that "not being dead" is not a nece...

You did not bother to notice that an argument can be valid even if its premsies are false. Validity and Soundness A deductive argument is said to be v...

The solipsism argument (whether it is accepted or not) proves that it is possible that reality is nothing more than our thoughts, thus the synthetic s...

"You haven't proven your premises as true, therefore you're argument is not deductive." As long as the conclusion is a necessary consequence of its pr...

If we are living in a perfect simulation of reality like the brain-in-a-vat thought experiment then all of our knowledge of physical realty is false b...

Validity and Soundness A deductive argument is said to be valid if and only if it takes a form that makes it impossible for the premises to be true an...

"No, that's not progress at all." You did not pay close enough attention to the exact words that I said. With valid reasoning the premises are assumed...

If synthetic knowledge does not actually exist and I have correctly shown that it does not, then this corrects mere presumptions to the contrary, thus...

We know that every element of the set of semantic tautologies is true. AKA self-evident truth. In epistemology (theory of knowledge), a self-evident p...

How do we distinguish the difference between reality and a perfect simulation of reality that has no distinguishable difference? We Don't !!!

Reviewing some of the Gettier cases it seems that they involve an incorrect mapping from a set of physical sensations to their corresponding elements ...