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The only truth in a question of possibility is what can happen and that is determined by nature. A nasturtium seed cannot become an apple tree, but Jo...
May 31, 2020 at 20:58
It defies basic logic to think of truth as manifold. Either A is true, or A is not true and switching to future tense makes no difference: Either A wi...
May 30, 2020 at 09:36
Please explain. Distance between here and there only refers to the relationship between subject and object. When something is objective, there is no s...
May 29, 2020 at 11:42
Can’t any probability in principle be expressed as a numerical value? We do it very inaccurately, of course. We say a great chance or a small chance, ...
May 28, 2020 at 10:44
So all this is relevant information contributing to the possibility that eventually a six will be rolled. The potential information is all objectively...
May 27, 2020 at 12:15
You can bang your keyboard randomly and happen to write a line from an 17th century poem in the Farsi language. It’s highly unlikely, but it’s a possi...
May 26, 2020 at 11:49
The purpose of the state is to benefit the individuals who make up the state. If the individuals have rights that make it difficult or impossible for ...
May 25, 2020 at 11:45
When the potential is infinite, our investigation is not aimed at objective truth, which is absolute, but probability. You have the potential to becom...
May 24, 2020 at 10:29
If you don’t limit the idea of potentiality to what is actually present inside an object (like the grown plant is present inside the seed) anything ha...
May 23, 2020 at 10:41
I admit that there is another sense in which everything is predetermined and thereby theoretically predictable. If everything is reduced to quantum me...
May 22, 2020 at 12:47
No, I’m not talking about what is just not practically possible to know about because of our human limitations. A superman or an extremely powerful co...
May 21, 2020 at 12:54
This seed is a potential nasturtium. It refers to something that exists inside the object now and is not really a prediction about the future. I am ab...
May 20, 2020 at 14:52
Our perception is based purely on actual information, what is there at the moment of perception. I see a rock and think it is an elephant, but still m...
May 19, 2020 at 14:36
Plastic exists independently whereas a bottle is dependent on the human mind to exist, but not on any specific mind. Anyone I asked above the age of t...
May 18, 2020 at 12:51
I’m afraid I’m still struggling to grasp the meaning of your basic terms. Would the following have any relevance?: I have a plastic bottle on my desk....
May 17, 2020 at 11:16
And again, why is that? Why isn’t any utterly useless information about something existing just as true as something heavily pregnant with significanc...
May 16, 2020 at 11:17
Our conception of objects are based on two elements: perception and judgment. The judgment we both call subjective, but you want to call individual pe...
May 15, 2020 at 14:28
It is unfortunate that the words “viewpoint”, “standpoint”, “outlook” and “perspective” are more or less synonymous with “opinion” and “belief”. The f...
May 14, 2020 at 11:41
We can never have certainty. We don’t know if there is an elephant standing in front of us. But the objective truth, at any given moment, has only two...
May 13, 2020 at 12:29
You get input from somewhere, a real elephant, a picture, a story or from some other untraceable memory and mix it with your energy or however you wou...
May 12, 2020 at 19:30
It doesn’t come into existence from nothing. The point is that the thought, as it comes into being, doesn’t affect its source. (Sure, it may result in...
May 11, 2020 at 15:44
No, that’s not what I mean. I’m just saying that a thought is one addition to reality. Reality consists of stones, houses, nail polish, thoughts etc. ...
May 10, 2020 at 20:29
A lot of our disagreement, as is often the case in philosophical debate, is actually about linguistics and how to define terms. Of course I agree that...
May 09, 2020 at 11:08
If it were your obligation to achieve the ultimate minimalization of suffering in the world, what exactly would your obligations be? An obligation mus...
May 08, 2020 at 19:13
There’s a big difference between having a child drowning in a pool right in front of you and knowing there are unspecified children dying far away in ...
May 07, 2020 at 09:59
If 5% died, that would cause unspeakable suffering for the remaining 95% simply because everyone would have close friends and relatives among the dead...
May 06, 2020 at 14:47
Preconceived concepts direct our perception, not language as such. You have a concept of what the thing is that we happen to call a computer, but the ...
May 05, 2020 at 17:03
Right. There is no way we can distinguish truth value objectively, there is no way we can think anything objectively or do anything whatsoever objecti...
May 04, 2020 at 11:25
Objective truth has nothing to do with our thinking and even less to do with our action. If you insist on connecting truth to our subjective attitude,...
May 03, 2020 at 10:55
On the one hand there is objective truth, manifesting itself as past events that can be described with propositions all of which have the truth value ...
May 02, 2020 at 10:52
A truth value is absolute and binary, either true or false and nothing in between. Whatever we believe the truth value of a proposition to be, doesn’t...
May 01, 2020 at 18:49
Probability of course has to do with predicting the future and I assume quantum physicists use complicated mathematical formulas to reach varying degr...
April 30, 2020 at 10:22
Where have you mentioned that before? If anything, quantum physics increases the notion of objectivity. There are no minds in quantum physics, no diff...
April 29, 2020 at 11:08
Where is that idea of yours actually coming from? How can that be a clarification of a common word we already thought we knew when not even a dictiona...
April 28, 2020 at 19:25
There is a limit to how useful it is to change the definition of common words in order to name concepts you feel are not properly labeled. It’s bound ...
April 27, 2020 at 18:35
So: “Peter will break his leg in 2021” is not potentially knowable even for you. That is because there’s probably nothing in the present state of the ...
April 26, 2020 at 16:03
Yes, truth value is a binary true or false. Like I’ve said several times, we can’t literally know anything. However, things that belong to the past ar...
April 25, 2020 at 11:38
At no point can you determine the truth value of potential information. (I now use your definition, which of course is as good as any chosen definitio...
April 23, 2020 at 20:43
I’d like to be clear about what you mean by “potential” in potential information. (It seems to me you are giving it a double meaning, but I may be wro...
April 22, 2020 at 19:17
No, I haven’t really been talking about our actions at all. Our actions are irrelevant to existing objective truths, but I have never said that the op...
April 21, 2020 at 15:42
All facts are potential information. There are just degrees of feelings of certainty coming from more or less convincing evidence. Peter’s thought at ...
April 20, 2020 at 16:07
I have never denied that we approach facts/truths in different ways depending on our circumstances. We value different kinds of information according ...
April 19, 2020 at 10:57
Consciousness and meaning (what people take something to mean) are also objective information that exists even though it is difficult or impossible to...
April 18, 2020 at 14:33
Different people, different cultural circumstances, different material circumstances etc. make a difference for how knowledge is approached or what ki...
April 17, 2020 at 18:39
Truth is what is. It neither includes nor excludes anything else. The computer is either on my desk or it is not there, regardless of how I feel about...
April 16, 2020 at 19:00
He would lack the words to describe each sentiment, but I fail to see why he, as a human being and subject to human psychology, would not go through t...
April 15, 2020 at 11:06
The lonely savage might believe a rabbit has gnawed on a branch (not sure, it could also be a hare), and predict that his trap will catch the rabbit (...
April 14, 2020 at 18:48
We certainly gain knowledge in different ways (or more accurately we gain strong belief); by seeing, calculating and understanding, sure, but again, t...
April 13, 2020 at 16:41
You are just cramming positively charged words into your idea of democracy. Reason, science and prosperity are not necessarily associated with democra...
April 12, 2020 at 13:05
Of course, and that’s how I, and I suppose most people, define the expression “possessing the truth” and I wonder why you would feel compelled to defi...
April 12, 2020 at 13:04