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...and there is the bias. ...and then the need for a proof seems moot.

This whole forum is of no consequence, so that's fine. Your post put me in mind of computer assisted proofs. I was playing with ChatGPT, asking it to ...

, To be more specific, It's clear that there are folk here with little formal education, yet they are engaging with material outside of the forums, an...

Well, if you haven't any regrets then you haven't had to make enduring choices. Philosophy is like a broken tooth that you cannot prevent your tongue ...

That was the intent. Here both rationality and normativity, as you can see from the replies above, provide self-serving post hoc justification. Of cou...

Sure, and some of these are certain. So to be reading this text, you have to take a range of things as granted: that I am writing this in English, in ...

, , , , , thanks for the comments. Only sees merit in his approach, it seems. Horgan and Timmons don't seem very appetising, after brief research. I r...

Like Nuñez, my gifts remain unrecognisable to the blind throngs.

~~ I'm puzzled by your preference for the Incredible String Band, when there were others who could sing... Fairport - Sandy Deny! Or Steeleye - Gay Wo...

So is shooting down Unidentified Flying Objects such a good idea? Cue theme from Close Encounters...

I have a recollection of being in a staff meeting at which future directions were being discussed. The subtext was that to survive, the Department had...

So the paradox is that one's intuition is to say Al knows where his car is, but not that it has not been stolen... an apparent contradiction. If the c...

That's just rude. :wink: No, not pragmatism. It's just preferable to argue about the meaning of "gavagai" on a full belly. That's pretty much the reas...

Haha! Certainly not after a career in philosophy... :lol: I started down that road long ago, only to opt for the safety of more mundane pursuits. I ad...

Rather, you are under-thinking it. Saying that we ought do what is right is trivial; that's just what "ought" is. The joke is that any choice is ratio...

You do realise that that's not what solipsism says, Smith? Not I exist, but I alone exist.

...the reduction of all human interaction to transactions. Yep. Again, what the ultimatum game shows is that folk do not work in this way. Our intuiti...

I had rather than you in mind, sorry. It's an approach after Popper, so based on received notions of scientific method, and in a more concise and read...

I think Watkins account in Confirmable and influential metaphysics the better.

Generally proofs of this sort are muddled improvisations in the rationalist or scholastic style. Arguments for idealism and solipsism take it as grant...

At least you are consistent.

The second premise in the argument on Quora assumes the conclusion: This assumes that there is only my view of how things are.

I've used that reply so many times over the years that it's not worth a smirk.

Funny thing is that no sooner does one start to set out god's attributes then one runs into contradictions. Better to remain silent.

Then it seems we are in agreement.

I don't see a point to your example. Sure, adding context changes the outcome. Changing the game changes the game. Are we in agreement that the experi...

Yes. It remains that it is dubious those rejecting an offer made an explicit decision based on an internal argument that permitting the unfairness wou...

(I kinda take this to be a proof that is it false...)

Sure. I said as much in ...but less succinctly.

Then why do some folk claim, in contrast to the rest of us, that the exact same herb - coriander - tastes soapy? Taste is not entierly down to chemist...

AN interesting perspective - nice. All the same, the responder has no monetary investment. There refusal is a net loss in economic terms. Their agreem...

Yep, ...says roughly that beliefs are either based on empirical evidence or faith, setting up a false dilemma. It's also not at all clear what this ha...

Who are you asking?

Yes, all that. You've added to the discussion of whether Kripke interpreted or misinterpreted Wittgenstein. This supposes that there is what we might ...

For my own part, if the amount is trivial my inclination would be to give the whole of it to the responder. This would at the least leave my contribut...

This is the best conclusion.

I'm interested in why folk see someone who is giving them money for nothing as fucking them over. Sure, they get more than you, but you still get some...

Well, what we have in the literature, and in the other replies above, are attempts to render the action compliant with a rational explanation. But of ...

The game has been played with pie. There's the joke. Ought we do what feels right and reject the unfair offer, or ought we follow the games-theoretica...

So it seems. So is Kripke's argument a rendering of Wittgenstein's, or a misinterpretation which is nevertheless philosophically interesting? Is the Q...

So you adopt the attitude of Homo Economicus? Yes, that's what games theory says we should do. But few of us actually act in this way. Offers of less ...

The experiment has been done many times, in a wide variety of societies. One experiment in Indonesia used the equivalent of two weeks wages, not an in...

Well, no. Rather if there are two identical Bruces, this is a counter instance. The issue is undecided.

What would be most surprising here would be that Biden had the balls...

Ok. And do you think this a reasonable argument? That this establishes "that representations/appearances apart from my own body have a subjective side...

I won't go along with that. Much of analytic philosophy is directed at that issue. The path from logic (Russell, Early Witti) to language (later Wittg...

I don't think there is an answer. The argument is roughly that because, in his terms, we experience our bodies internally and externally, all other th...

That's a conclusion, or an assertion.

Well, let's start with the first quote. I don't think it contains an argument. It's rather a set of assertions. That'd not be a surprise, since as the...

The obvious example of a potential misreading is Kripke, Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language. Is the "Quus" argument an explanation of Wittgens...