You are misusing the word 'misuse'. I didn't merely assert, I appealed to self-evident truths of reason. Try it sometime. 7 is laughable example. I me...
I answered those questions. A substance is a bearer of properties. And to be 'extended' is to occupy some space. 'Time' is neither. It exists, but it ...
Yes, but I have not claimed that time is mistakenly thought to be space. I have claimed that time is mistakenly thought to be a dimension. The case I ...
You're not making a dot of sense imo. So, Tim is killed by a headshot - it kills him instantly. You're saying that's not a harm - that if Roger shoots...
I've already said. I am not 'making it' axiomatic, I am appealing to reason. Actual infinities can't exist. Or so says the reason of virtually everyon...
Why? I mean, yes, obviously we do. But why? Please explain how I can have an instrumental reason to avoid something that will not harm me. Yes, that's...
Yes, I am aware of that. Winter evenings must fly by in his house. But an omniscient god would know that he is a god, otherwise he'd be ignorant of so...
No, not nonsense. Your reply is as inept as insisting that in Russell or Gettier's original they were just 'insisting' that the agent lacks knowledge....
Nice of you to set yourself as a Bartricks-early-warning system. You know your name makes no sense, right? First, it should be "God must be 'an' athei...
But death clearly is a harm, for it's self-evident we have instrumental (and perhaps moral) reason to avoid it in our own case, and certainly moral re...
I think death is a burden, a harm, yes. And a far bigger one than living - unless you're on fire or something - which is why our reason tells us to do...
I am not sure I am following you. What are these conceptual problems and how do they arise for my position? So, my position - as described in the OP -...
But aren't you answering a different question, namely "when is someone justified in believing they have knowledge"? The person in the Russell clock ca...
I do not think this - I think they 'can' lend justification. I'm a holist about knowledge. That is, I think what transforms a true belief into knowled...
How is that curious? First, I showed why your alternative to my 'luck' analysis is false. Note, the only evidence you provided that I was mistaken was...
No it isn't. We have a concept 'of' time, but time is not a concept. The past, the present and the future are real. It is not by convention that there...
Yes, that's correct. Space - conceived of as a dimension or stuff - shares some of the same problems. As for 'absolute' time - I am not sure what you ...
I do not dispute that time essentially consists of the properties of present, past and future. But your analysis simply assumes that time is a dimensi...
Yes, veritable saliva. No, Smith's belief is about the person who will occupy the role. But even if it rigidly designates Jones - and it doesn't - we ...
Yes, but you're confidently wrong about that, Confidentlywrong. The relevant belief is about the person who will occupy the post, not Jones specifical...
Classy. Is you upset because the nasty man did some clever on you? Oh, and it is 'you are' or 'you're' not 'your'. Do you also agree that you're compl...
Confidentlywrong: we both know that pigs are dogs, don't we? Bartricks: pigs aren't dogs. What are you on about? Confidentlywrong: well, we disagree a...
Er, what are you on about? You can't 'know' that, because it is obviously false! A valid argument with false premises can lead to a true conclusion!! ...
And in the original clock case. The false belief that the clock is working does provide the agent with a justification for believing it is 3 o clock. ...
Ah, the great ovdtogt has pronounced. No it isn't. It 'is' the past and the future (and the present). Stop trying to be profound. Time is love on a tr...
Why do you think most philosophers disagree with each other? They don't, I think. I think you'll find far more agreement among philosophers than among...
I do not follow you, so need more detail. My original point was that it would be clearly absurd to suggest that time had slowed down for the cheese in...
Hmm, I do not think you're right, but it doesn't really affect my point, which I'll elaborate on shortly. First, you say that in the original clock ex...
A substance bears properties. Extended would mean that it occupies some space - that is has volume, shape. But I've argued that time is not a substanc...
I think the important distinction would be between substances that are extended and those that are not. Time, to the extent that it is conceived of as...
'No' to both. But if our reason - that is, the unprejudiced reason of most of us - tells us that something is not the case, then that is excellent pri...
Hmm, no, just as it is clear to sight that there are colours, it is clear to reason - that is, our faculties of reason represent it to be the case - t...
That's consistent with it not being a dimension. We can note too that if it is a dimension then we would predict that it would be infinitely divisible...
To continue, if I may, you say this: How is this different from me putting one piece of cheese in the fridge and another on the sideboard and then reu...
If two people have equally good evidence for contradictory positions, it does not follow that they are both correct. For instance, there may be just a...
I am not sure I understand the problem. Is it that situations can arise in which one person, Jill, has apparent evidence that James has aged more slow...
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