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:wink: Fair call. No, there is a "golden thread" (Rumpole of the Bailey...) in US political thinking that is worthy of note, but which shows itself no...

That's a shame, since the logic involved makes very clear the distinction. it might serve to bold any differences between our two positions. I've not ...

What is of the most interest here will be Albanese's response.

But I do. The US used to be better than this stuff.

Sure. In the OP you asked about "Complete trust or confidence in someone or something". You were after the meaning of faith and how it relates to opti...

Yes, I understand that there are others who share your view. I think they are misguided. If you care to present their arguments, rather than just thei...

Fitch’s Paradox of Knowability might be the most accessible account. But I've run several threads on the topic, in which you have participated. Devitt...

Just to keep on topic, here is the video that the US says should not have been released, and is the source of the charges: https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Of course. But there comes a point at which the unity is broken. That point is seen in the extremes of belief despite the way things are, from the bin...

And all that. I moved from science to philosophy when I found that science does not address and cannot answer the questions in which I was interested....

You seem to have: The very simplest lifeforms have the ability to avoid harm, seek nourishment, find conditions suitable for growth and so on; Hence, ...

The characterisation I presented above is I think fairly standard at present - happy to be show to be wrong. On that characterisation idealism is oppo...

A humourless realist might concur. We might revert to the ubiquitous cup-in-the-cupboard argument, if you prefer; or the chairs at the end of the univ...

What seems odd to me is that I entirely agree with what you have said above, and yet I would, casually, count myself as a realist. I hope it is clear ...

That's one line I would follow: that 's comments are true of realism. It does not look to be an account of idealism, which has at its core the notion ...

No. The situation is one in which someone believes something despite the evidence. Authority might, but need not, enter into the situation. Your intro...

Ok, thanks for that clarification. I was misled by this:

That's not what I asked. We can identify the following variation in idealism, according to SEP: I'm wondering which you advocate. I gather it is not t...

Sure, all that. Whence the data that the senses are processing? Where does the data originate?

When the family got together and made a Lego model on a cold wet day last week, we constructed it from lego. When I built a small garden out the back,...

several pages ago. Pretty unimpressive. I don't know if I should be more disappointed with Janus for such poor argument or myself for not walking away...

:rofl: Fucksake. I disagree with your differentiating "feeling certain" from "being certain", because on yur own account "being certain" is just feeli...

But that is exactly what is at issue: is LaMDA an instance of non-biological consciousness. Further, it is not clear that functional autonomy and home...

It is as I pointed out, many pages ago: You have invented a novel distinction by confusing truth and certainty.

Understood. And yet it has implication for Optimism and hope have the direction of fit from thought to word. Hope involves expectation and desire. Tha...

Again, your point remains obscure. Are you claiming that LaMDA does not have a subjective life, but that you do, and yet that this mooted subjective l...

No, I mean that the objective-subjective distinction does not help.

Trouble is, it doesn't help, because that subjectivity is not open to our inspection, neither in the case of @"ZzzoneiroCosm" or of LaMDA. So as an an...

Balls. You asked me pages back if I were certain of anything. I said yes. You didn't follow up on my reply.

Here you hit on what underpins what makes faith distinct from other belief. For most purposes, a belief is a conclusion. The evidence or the conventio...

To be sure, it is clear that you make a distinction here. What I've been doing is trying to draw out form you what that distinction is. I think I hit ...

All excellent question. But I'm the wrong one to ask. The fact of such diverse "biblical lenses" for me indicates the incoherence of the very idea. It...

...so being certain is just feeling certain of something, and that thing being true, and it's being justified? Why add "knowing"?

Always have had. We believe something if we take it to be true. Hence the error of @"Ken Edwards"'s OP, which claims that we ought not believe anythin...

So being certain is just feeling certain of something, and that thing being true.

Cheers. SO now we have you asserting: And this is as opposed to a mootted Is that it?

It's as well for that Islam preserved the classical texts Christianity destroyed so that they could become "gateway philosophies". Doubtless that was ...

With sentences like that, is it a surprise I have not understood you? Is this "No level of certainty implies knowing the subject is true" or is this "...

To all, This set me thinking about what is involved in adopting a "biblical lens". If the bible is true, then that is what one ought to do. The bible ...

Yep. That's it.

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Seems that "be certain" means the subject is true. An odd phrasing that leads Janus astray.

Indeed.

Hm. A dog is an animal. A cat is an animal. Hence a dog is a cat.

(9) does not imply that a monad is a universe unto itself. So, where?

That is not my understanding. Nor does it follow from (9). It seems you have been led astray somewhere.

If you like. Monads are not each a possible world.

Sure. But they are actual, not possible.

...and...? Monads are simple substances. God chose the best of all possible worlds to be the one instantiated by those monads. That doesn't sound like...

That would be surprising. Where's that from?