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This person is clearly someone with a background in physics. Werner Heisenberg already pointed out in 1927 a massive flaw in the correspondence-theory...
June 19, 2019 at 11:08
I did not make that conclusion directly based on Gettier's work or examples, but on the argument in the debate.org discussion about JTB: He wrote: Sim...
June 19, 2019 at 10:25
The meaning of symbols comes from their relationship with other symbols. It is not possible to attribute anything to them because they often do not co...
June 19, 2019 at 10:13
There used to be this presupposition that if a proposition is (logically) true, there must necessarily exist a proof for it, somewhere to be discovere...
June 19, 2019 at 03:49
Well, Kant just defines these things: a priori meaning without the use of sensory information and a posteriori, the opposite of that (i.e. empirical)....
June 19, 2019 at 03:38
Not in a professional sense. Just as a hobby. I would never join the academia. They require a growing amount of ideological orthodoxy from their staff...
June 19, 2019 at 03:26
That is not exactly what Gödel proved. There are (simple) axiomatic systems that are complete, such as the Presburger arithmetic. Gödel did the follow...
June 19, 2019 at 02:52
Well, with the entire field of mathematics not being correspondence-theory "true", the "T" in JTB is simply too much of a problem. If math is knowledg...
June 18, 2019 at 15:38
Our conversation takes place in a virtual world. It is just an elaborate simulation of artifacts of the real, physical world. The "page" you see in fr...
June 18, 2019 at 11:15
What you see with your own eyes is true, if you are eyes are not lying to you, but it is never provable. Try to (objectively) prove that you are typin...
June 18, 2019 at 10:28
Provable, according to proof theory, means that the proposition necessarily follows from the construction logic of the world (in which you prove it). ...
June 18, 2019 at 08:31
Worse than that! It is not even true! It is merely provable (from the construction logic of that abstract, Platonic world). Furthermore, provable and ...
June 18, 2019 at 08:16
Statements that have no correspondence with the real, physical world are not (necessarily) false. They are simply not "true" as meant in the correspon...
June 18, 2019 at 07:56
Agreed. However, as long as thought/belief has not been expressed in language, it cannot be communicated unambiguously. We still use lots of body lang...
June 18, 2019 at 07:44
Gettier concludes that JTB (Justified True Belief) must be JB (Justified Belief). I conclude the same conclusion (JTB --> JB) but for different reason...
June 18, 2019 at 07:38
The correspondence theory of truth requires some kind of legitimate isomorphism between the true proposition and the history of the universe. Furtherm...
June 18, 2019 at 07:31
There are other reasons why knowledge is a justified belief and not necessarily a justified true belief. For example, a mathematics theorem is a concl...
June 18, 2019 at 06:01
> If we assume that philosophers do create new knowledge Philosophers rather discover new questions. Success means that the question can actually be a...
June 18, 2019 at 05:21
> If we formulate existence as a property of objects, then we must either admit that all objects exist In the real world, you cannot visit all objects...
June 16, 2019 at 15:28
@"For me, philosophy is an ongoing discussion over the nature of being." S="What I am holding now in my hand is an apple." Is S philosophy?
June 16, 2019 at 15:11
All elements in religion emerge from its system of rules, assuming that the religion is a system. This system of rules is described in its scriptures,...
June 15, 2019 at 09:55