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...
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...
Please explain. Distance between here and there only refers to the relationship between subject and object. When something is objective, there is no s...
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, ...
So all this is relevant information contributing to the possibility that eventually a six will be rolled. The potential information is all objectively...
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...
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 ...
When the potential is infinite, our investigation is not aimed at objective truth, which is absolute, but probability. You have the potential to becom...
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...
I admit that there is another sense in which everything is predetermined and thereby theoretically predictable. If everything is reduced to quantum me...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
And again, why is that? Why isn’t any utterly useless information about something existing just as true as something heavily pregnant with significanc...
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...
It is unfortunate that the words “viewpoint”, “standpoint”, “outlook” and “perspective” are more or less synonymous with “opinion” and “belief”. The f...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
If it were your obligation to achieve the ultimate minimalization of suffering in the world, what exactly would your obligations be? An obligation mus...
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 ...
If 5% died, that would cause unspeakable suffering for the remaining 95% simply because everyone would have close friends and relatives among the dead...
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 ...
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...
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,...
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 ...
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...
Probability of course has to do with predicting the future and I assume quantum physicists use complicated mathematical formulas to reach varying degr...
Where have you mentioned that before? If anything, quantum physics increases the notion of objectivity. There are no minds in quantum physics, no diff...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
All facts are potential information. There are just degrees of feelings of certainty coming from more or less convincing evidence. Peter’s thought at ...
I have never denied that we approach facts/truths in different ways depending on our circumstances. We value different kinds of information according ...
Consciousness and meaning (what people take something to mean) are also objective information that exists even though it is difficult or impossible to...
Different people, different cultural circumstances, different material circumstances etc. make a difference for how knowledge is approached or what ki...
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...
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...
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 (...
We certainly gain knowledge in different ways (or more accurately we gain strong belief); by seeing, calculating and understanding, sure, but again, t...
You are just cramming positively charged words into your idea of democracy. Reason, science and prosperity are not necessarily associated with democra...
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...
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