PL Olcott

Only the analytic side of the analytic / synthetic distinction has proof. The synthetic side (that I call the empirical side) only has evidence. We ca...

My adaptation to JTB makes it a necessary truth. Complete proof is a semantic tautology. Cats are stipulated to be animals. That the animal in front o...

It is certainly not impossible to know with 100% complete certainty that a dog is an animal and my adaptation to JTB specifically excludes anything th...

I have pondered this again and again for years. "If truth is the necessary ingredient for knowledge, how do I know what I claim I know is true?" Truth...

"instance where there is something outside of our ability to know" Does not count as knowledge under my adaptation of JTB.

My adapted version of JTB does seems to perfectly divide knowledge from presumption and falsity and utterly eliminate the Gettier cases.

A space monster in disguise would not have the DNA of a cat. We could add that one of the properties of a cat is that the thing <is> a cat. Thus a per...

I always view these things in terms of pure logic. If a thing in the world can be empirically validated to have all of the properties of a cat includi...

JTB is partially correct in that knowledge must be a truth that is held in at least mind. If no one knows X then X is not knowledge. X must also be tr...

"I am skeptical towards justificationism/foundationalism. It looks to me like human attempts at justification are always built on intuitions which are...

I can't envision any element of the set of knowledge that can avoid being a necessary consequence of something else. This applies across the analytic/...

Unless at least one mind has a belief B about subject S such that the justification of this belief necessitates its truth then B is not an element of ...

The way that I see it there are two sources of analytical truth: (a) Some expressions are stipulated to have the semantic property of Boolean true. We...