Statements are combinations of nouns and verbs and such like; Some statements are either true or false, and we can call these propositions. So, "The p...
It's a standard example. Lous believes (knows, loves, is worried that...) Kent wears glasses. Kent is Superman. But Lous does not believe (know, love,...
Seems to be a formalism along the lines of the logic of belief revision? That approach might be quite informative, although it bothers me that the set...
That does not strike me as an adequate parsing of what Searle is pointing out. Indeed, it would appear that you are making much the same claim as Sear...
I'm not following your last few posts. Edit: So, for example, you say despite And then his example of Bernoulli's principle. And I don't see where suc...
Let's do some clarification before proceeding. Relations, in first order logic, have a form such as f(a,b); where "f" is the relation and "a" and "b" ...
The textbook critique of Descartes' dualism is that by dividing the world into mind and matter, he loses the capacity to explain how mind and matter i...
Well, I sometimes suspect that the capacity to giggle might be more common than the capacity for rationality. I don't have much background in Aristotl...
No, they are not; for instance, "For every organism there is some purpose" is a classic all and some, neither falsifiable nor provable. Failure to loc...
Generally, if we are using standard logic, that'd apply for be belief, or knowledge, or some such; not truth. I reckon sausages explode when they have...
Like the quote marks. There are a few arguments on the forum at present that start by assuming that such-and-such is irreducible, and then pretend to ...
Goodness, a resurrection from five years ago. This thread was an analytic response to the vast amount of rubbish written about belief on these fora. A...
Thought you might. So consider this proof that the world is quantitative: Same argument you invoked, used to prove the opposite. Looks to me that you'...
But sucking on one teaspoon of sugar (a quantitative process) will produce the sensation of sweetness (a quality). So P1 is not right. The world conta...
:smirk: The test for whether someone knows where the socks are is not their reliability, honesty and integrity, but their interactions with socks - va...
There are a few ways to not know where your socks are kept. One is pragmatism, in which the location of your sock draw can never be known, but only ap...
Firstly, how is "objectively true" any clearer than "reality"? Secondly, this implies that subjective stuff, pain, joy, thought, is not real. And thir...
Because having a special page for solipsists (plural) would contradict solipsism. After all, there is only one. So the question is, why isn't there a ...
Sure. But generally, those with no training do not do it well. Philosophy is not done well by dabblers. You have spent years studying and writing abou...
Yep. Not sure why I am still here, in this increasingly superficial chatfest. I guess the mods haven't noticed me. These last few months the retired e...
Maybe. Or maybe you hadn't actually considered what you were claiming. We know you read my post, since you replied to it - it's too later for you to p...
A thread such as this is always amusing. There's the argument, never quite made explicit, that since we can put "absolute" in front of "knowledge", it...
A very good question, one that overlaps a conversation I am having with @"Sam26" in PM. Beliefs are not discrete pieces of mental furniture, despite o...
Are you asking, what is indubitable? Beyond doubt? There's a lot of work to be done here, sorting out knowledge from certainty and belief and doubt an...
Perhaps, but nor does it emphasis it. The target here is not you, but the notion that what language is for is "mapping" the world. We do far more than...
We are not passive absorbers of sense data. We interact with the world around us, not just knowing but doing. We don't just observe cups, we fill them...
And if I asked where the cup is, your answer, I hope, would be "It's in the cupboard", not some obtuse construct like "I don't know, but if you were t...
Cool. SO now to draw this back to our conversation from yesterday. Seems to me that "the cup and handle still exist when we don't see them" amounts to...
Then how are we to apply "we don't know whether the physicality of things is or isn't a truth beyond our experience" to the cup, if not "we don't know...
Yeah, being physical is made-up pretendies, like the Queen being able to move in any direction. The cup might well cease to have a handle when "beyond...
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