No. Last I checked, the term "indefeasible" is synonymous to "infallible". You take your knowledge to be infallible. Hence, you never discover that wh...
Is this to say that everything you know is indefeasible? As an example pertinent to the discussion: Your knowledge that the last clock or watch you lo...
So are we now cool with the claim that justification requires coherency of beliefs? Hm, I can understand your logic for so affirming, but it doesn't s...
To not beat around the bush, your reply doesn’t address the heart of the matter in relation to the one principle discrepancy you pointed out: coherent...
As we once concluded a few days back, I’m not profound enough to understand the subtleties of your position regard Her: Reason. To which I again say, ...
As I believe I've addressed in my posts, I agree with this. To me the conceptual problems only emerge when we presume (or else intend to gain) an omni...
Just in case an example would be of help: Suppose I affirm knowledge that it will rain today. You ask me why. I then reply by justifying this belief t...
In its pure traditional form, quite. Coherency of beliefs applies, in part, to justifications - not to truth. Do you find that justifications for beli...
Via the Russel example, I was addressing the understanding that the man can only know its 3 o'clock if his beliefs conform to reality. His primary bel...
(Nice posts, btw). Why, or how, does the man know that it’s 3 o’clock? Only because he looked at the clock which, to his mind, was working properly. T...
It's in trying to answer questions like these that I believe the Ancient Skeptics got such a bad reputation over the years. :wink: It requires illustr...
If I were to try to play devils advocate, I'd try using Agripa's trilemma as a counter. But I'll be forthright. At first glance, I like you're argumen...
I hear you. The definitions can be contentious, often emotively so. For example, socialism for most - at least in my neck of woods - most always invok...
Not a very easy question to properly answer. In earnest, by "capitalism properly structured" I interpret a meritocratic system of capital acquisition ...
Do you by any chance interpret the financial aid provided by governments to corporations and banks in 2008 - and still provided by governments to petr...
I’ll offer my perspective, but, before I do, as per the contents of my previous post, I do find that no matter the answer affirmed, it will be less th...
The square root of 2 being irrational to me seems to be precisely the type of affirmation which we cannot refute in practice. While I find the boldfac...
No. The purpose of an argument or justification is to substantiate that one's belief-that (always of what is true) is in fact true (in fact conforms t...
Got it. Thanks. As for me, consciousness - as in "that which is aware of" - is itself other than information - as in "that which informs". The former ...
Going by this created dichotomy, all instantiations of immediate experience would be "physical/actual". Abstract concepts that emerge from these insta...
Firstly, physicality is itself an abstraction. Secondly, immediate experience (be it of pain/pleasure or of empirical givens) is itself not an abstrac...
It's true. The only way it's truth-value would be problematic is *if* you have never told a lie in your life *and* you know this to be true *and* you ...
The strengthened liar paradox – “this very sentence is false” - is an abstraction obtained from either “I am a liar” or “I am lying”. A liar: a) someo...
You, guy, are more than correct in this. When someone does not know what is meant by the law of noncontradiction but considers dialetheism to be consi...
Unless I misunderstood creativesoul's remark, I agree that reasoning is subject to laws of thought and that these are presupposed true in the very use...
As should be apparent, I fully agree. A tricky philosophical question that ensues: To what does reasoning’s premises (first principles at least) corre...
Dialetheism is the position that some statements are both true and false, i.e. that some contradictory propositions express what is termed “true contr...
Hey, in adding some content to my previous post, here presenting a counterpoint to the “it’s too late” angle: If the global mass disruptions that are ...
The question is on par to asking: Is the challenge of changing the global status quo of “greed is good” something that is too great for humanity to ha...
Stepping away from mathematics for a moment, I’ll address the possible metaphysical reality of first principles. Consider the law of identity (A = A)....
In one word: Trump. Whom we all know is our esteemed comrade of superior equality relative to everyone else in the world, this because he is the beste...
While I find a sharp distinction between rationalism and empiricism specious - Kant gave good examples of why this is, imo - the only way to substanti...
This thread is about empirical knowledge, I presumed, not axiomatic claims. Aside from which, how would "all unicorns are white" not be a true stateme...
This one example doesn't work. If one fails to see any swans period, then the proposition of "all swans are white" is no better than "all unicorns are...
OK. So he is difficult to categorize. Yet this directly contradicts your stance throughout this thread that the proper way to categorize Hume is obvio...
Ok, each to their own takes. So I clarify why my take is different than yours, one will risk and sacrifice for givens that are loved, but not for give...
Cool. Noticed in this thread that you nitpick what to reply to in relation to my posts. Leaves me to believe that you might not address other's writin...
I haven't once denied that there is both love and hate in the world, nor that these two emotions stand in opposition to each other. That said, the vid...
Why would Hume appear in a list of individuals whose theories of substance the bundle theory of substance rejects? Greatly appreciative of that. I'm n...
No, Hume's bundle theory of the self claims that there is no immutable self - which is what I've previously stated. What I asked is where Hume specifi...
:smile: Reminds me of Nine Inch Nails song I like. "Bow down to the one you serve; you're going to get what you deserve" kind of thing. Why on earth s...
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