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I've been trying to get it to play nought and crosses. It can't. It clearly does not understand how the game is played. I'd be tempted to say that it ...

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Categorical imperatives are found in deontology, but not so much in consequentialism or virtue ethics. Moral realism is the idea that moral statements...

I don't see that. Rather, you said JTB was silly and I showed a few ways in which it is of interest to philosophers because it displays some of the ch...

You hinted, in your talk of metaphysics, at a broader interest in how this question is framed, and asked about "transcendence" being off-limits to phi...

What works, what is useful, what is pragmatic; or just that it's what we do? I'm not sure that the use of "pragmatic" isn't a bit too teleological, gi...

See PM. All of this has a so far ignored ethical dimension.

Somewhat controversially, Kant took Newtonian physics and Euclidian geometry as fundamental. For a while, "Kant's conception looked quaint at best and...

Of course they are – that's what makes them good examples. You can pretend that this post is in French, but it will remain no more than a pretence, an...

That's one of the lessons learned, and subsequently taught, by the natural language approach.

Even if this post were but part of a coma-induced dream, in that dream the post is in English. I don't agree that the coma and dream arguments are as ...

I don't think that captures the subtlety of what knowledge is. Hallucinations are an obvious counterexample, but they keep the discussion on the level...

Yep. You've made use of justified true belief here in order to paint a picture of knowledge as a communal activity, In a somewhat different way to my ...

We might consider this in a bit more detail. Certainty is the flip side of doubt; if something is undoubtable, then it is certain. And there are innum...

Nice.

Yes, but no. Counterintuitively, Popper argued that the less likely a theory, the more scientific it is.

Of course. This works well when one is actively problem solving, as in science or engineering. Less so in social work, were it is sometimes necessary ...

Worth trying, although the balance has to be right. It sounds odd, but too much gives the coffee a bitterness... and not the right bitterness. Kazakst...

Doubtless.

@"Jamal", was it you who was talking abut cardamon in coffee a few moths back? Did you try it?

But a general rule is coriander and cumin. If you have more coriander than cumin, it's curry. If you have more cumin than coriander, it's Mexican. Sav...

Well, I'll grant you cardamon in the garam masala if added just before serving. Putting it in any earlier and the fragrance will cook out. The kitchen...

Finesse is for wusses.

Very good. Be prepared for that burst of fragrance. Probably not for novices. Oo, Ooo, just saw that this was about Fijian curry. One of our regular f...

If you like. Such an approach probably originated with Peirce, the notion being that we never know anything for sure but only approach the truth asymp...

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Yep. The discussion is re-framed so as to move on.

All good stuff. I'm not that interested in saving Kant from anachronism, and I agree that it's the doing that is of value. But I disagree with "...wha...

As you say, that depends on what is to count as metaphysical. The term is used, and misused, quote broadly. By way of an example, in the Popperian sch...

...as you treat thoughts as a landscape. But more, the use of "exists" in a way that is analogous to it's application to rocks and hills and stuff - t...

May as well.

The recipes I've seen have cumin and coriander more often than cardamon. I'd be loath to put Cardamon in a korma, preferring to throw a few whole pods...

That's your fault; you asked the big questions. "Cream was formed in 1966" is true if and only if Cream was formed in 1966. How you decide to believe ...

It was a somewhat facetious example, as you show; Newtonian physics is correct, provided we stick to medium-sized objects and medium-sized velocities ...

Given what I said above, I hope it is clear that I do not think there can be what I've called an "algorithmic" account of truth, and hence of either w...

Since to know something is to know that it is true, the philosophical issues around truth carry over to knowledge. I'll go over my views on truth agai...

The illicit reification in 's post is pretty clear. Well expressed, interesting link. Wittgenstein, of course, took a contrary view to Augustin as to ...

Something else worth considering in looking in on the definition of knowledge is the various different sorts of knowledge folk have noted. The first o...

Damn, is on to me, despite my cunningly hiding my passive aggressive snot in an account of justified true belief.

I was simply seeking a more forthcoming response to my post. Oh, well.

And yet, as explained, if something is known, it cannot be false, it cannot be disbelieved, and it perhaps cannot be unjustified. Not so silly? But am...

Good stuff. has rediscovered Popper's World 3, which in turn is yet another version of Plato. i'm rather taken by Searle's account of how "...counts a...

, prior to Kant there were various approaches to philosophy that tried to derive metaphysical, and even physical, facts from first principles by mere ...

I gather that you are using "idea" in some special way. For the rest of us, an idea usually does have some propositional content - so we speak of the ...

I do not understand what this is about. Which case? What was the initial condition? What was "forced in a proposition"? Did you mean "forced into a pr...

Much as Wittgenstein pointed out in On Certainty. Being deceived is already participating in a language game - and so being deceived is participating ...

I don't see how to make sense of this. If we decide that something is true on the basis of some observation, and subsequent observations show that it ...

A good account. Any decent discussion of knowledge needs not only to acnowledge, but account for, the relation between knowing that... and knowing how...

Somethign on which we do not disagree. But it would be an error to conclude that therefore we are, or may be, always deceived. So I'll join with .

Definitions do not work in that way. You know that there are two ways to approach definitions, by stipulation or by description, and that definitions ...