Oh, that's soooo clear. Jesus. Let's unpick that mess, shall we? (Bet you hoped I wouldn't). So, you have said that D is false. Thus, assuming you und...
No, they're for actions and beliefs. And it is not confused, its incredibly clear. You an expert on this stuff are you? Who've you read recently on no...
The internet. I don't use it myself. But I am sure that if you look up either normative reasons or justifying reasons you'll find that they're the sam...
No, for a belief to be justified is for there to be a 'normative' reason to believe it. They're also called 'justifying reasons' for that very reason....
For a belief to be justified is for there to be a normative reason to believe it. That's a conceptual truth (normative reasons are sometimes called 'j...
No, I don't know what you're arguing. You are confused. Not me. You. I don't think you have a criticism. No. A belief is not a percept. Yet if I belie...
I have literally no idea what you're on about. Here's my argument from the OP: I then defended 1 and 2. Now, which premise are these Neanderthal cousi...
Well, it hasn't improved with time. I mean, I don't know what you objection is. You just keep saying that there is something incoherent in the idea of...
Well, I clearly wasted my time with that explanation above, didn't I? Sigh. What on earth are you on about? No it isn't! And what 'help' do you think ...
I consider it cavilling because we are talking merely about the appropriate term to use to refer to a mechanism that may or may not be capable of gene...
I have not read the bible and I am not a Christian and so I have not given these matters much thought. But I take it that the basic problem here is th...
There's nothing incoherent about it. Let's use the visual analogy. There can be a visually indiscernible painting from a genuine Van Gogh, and it not ...
No, that's not how a premise 'works'. I boiled the argument down to a syllogism for the sake of clarity. I then provided independent support for the f...
The first premise is not false. I defended it in the OP. You need to address the argument I gave in support of it. I don't understand your edit. My pr...
One could say that to be conscious is always to be conscious 'of' something. But I think the same point applies and once we accept - as surely we shou...
I'm sure that passes for wit in a Burger King or a Kentucky Fried Chicken, but you are talking to a champagne drinking truffle muncher, so you really ...
No, you said my view was that we are not aware of anything. That is not my view. And it is not in any way implied by my claim that there can be intros...
Shall I help you to see how dumb you are being? (Or willfully ignorant) Sunflowers no. 4. It's a famous painting by Vincent van Gogh. It is in the Nat...
Well that was gibberish. Again, why do you think I am committed to the view that we are not aware of things? I think we are aware of things. But you s...
Why are you telling me what introspectively indiscernible means? I know what it means. Why do you think it means I think we are not aware of things? I...
What are you on about?? You clearly don't understand English. Again, no rephrasing necessary. You don't understand words. Learn English. Read the OP. ...
Greatest thinker since Plantinga?!? Now that's an insult! Plantinga isn't remotely close to being a great thinker. Jeez. I'm in a different league. Ga...
A conscious mind is not necessarily aware of it's own consciousness. That is, the idea of a conscious mind that is not aware of it's own consciousness...
It has everything to do with you not reading carefully or not understanding what you read. It said 'if', matey. If. And you ignored that. Willfully ig...
You don't seem to understand the argument. Visual sensations cannot tell us about the world unless they have representative contents. That is, unless ...
If that person's faculties - all of them - are bot-built, then yes. They will not be capable of having beliefs, as beliefs are mental states with repr...
Christ, you are either very stupid or you can't read. Quote the whole sentence. It says 'If'. What does that mean? What's the difference between sayin...
Where did I say that I am not introspectively aware of things? I don't think you're following the argument. Everytime i desvribe what 'would' be the c...
it is important to see that I am saying a conscious mind in a state that is introspectively indiscernible from a belief with the content 'I exist', wo...
Descartes point is that the belief 'I exist' is incapable of being false. What I am arguing is that if all of our faculties are bot-built, then they w...
It's just that even your insults don't really make sense. You proposed that I have read relevant philosophical works (can you tell me some of those, i...
I don't follow. The 'or not' makes it exhaustive. So, either our faculties are wholly a product of blind evolutionary forces, or they're not. I am arg...
I don't think minds are material or created. Brains are. But that's beside the point, for here I am not defending immaterialism about the mind. I am d...
They're begging the question. I have not argued here that minds are incapable of being or emerging from matter. I have argued that if the faculties su...
I exist. God exists. I am not God. Therefore solipsism is false. There's an external sensible world. It is made of sensations. Sensations exist as the...
No he doesn't, dumbojones. Bartricks thinks there are no square circles. Possible and actual. Most people don't have much trouble grasping that distin...
Brains aren't aware. Minds are - or can be. But anyway, yes, if your faculties haven't been created by an agent, or are not being used by an agent for...
True awareness requires agency because only agents can make representations (and awareness essentially requires representation). Mental states do not ...
No you didn't. I think, perhaps, you're confusing two different senses of 'criticism'. There's 'your argument is rubbish and you're a terrible person ...
Ah, the tedious 'he's so horrible, let's talk about him rather than engage any of the arguments' pile on from all the usual suspects. Just go away - y...
How on earth does any of that engage with what I argued? It's like pointing out that you need to be well adapted in order to be able to make and bake ...
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