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No. Beliefs are not propositions. They are attitudes towards propositions. The belief is not "the cat is on the mat" but that "It is true that the cat...

Erudite OP. Thanks. I didn't watch Squid Game. I understand that the premiss was folk being forced into a blood game by way of looming bankruptcy. Not...

A succinct summation of the actual article by one Brendan Shea: David Lewis on Divine Evil A small counter to the oddly reactionary and defensive resp...

No it doesn't. It implies only that you think it true. If that were so, there would be no truths that you do not believe; are you omniscient?

Not so. Folk believe things that are not true; hence belief does not imply truth. There are true things that folk do not believe; hence truth does not...

...says no more than "what I believe, I believe". Believing Covid doesn't exist does not prevent you from getting sick. That is, something that is "tr...

The content of a belief is the thing believed, which in every case can be put into the form of a proposition. If that is not so, present a belief that...

There are unspoken propositions. But no, I've had enough of this.

I have a proof that time is real. I'll show it to you.

Djokovic? You mistake me for someone who might care.

Refugee who escaped the Taliban and self-immolated on Nauru speaks from Melbourne's Park Hotel Keep in mind:

All that claim amounts to is the common explanation of action in terms of belief and desire.

Oh, of course. The network, connectionist notion goes even further, and was discussed previously, at length, with @"Isaac". But the point remains that...

The point being made is the relatively simple one that we use the term belief to talk about a particular attitude towards a proposition. It's not an a...

Well, no, as those who do not believe in Covid are discovering en masse. There are lots of things that do not care what you believe. We are. Repeating...

If there are beliefs that cannot be presented in propositional form, give us an example. It's that simple.

This is your present rendering of this dead horse? You've gone back to thinking of beliefs as magical items of mental furniture? That "The cat believe...

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Yeah, come on, @"creativesoul", write us an explanation of how the whole world works. Preferably in less than a hundred words. :lol: What this shows i...

I don't much care about the case, except for this: It wasn't. It was instead about privilege. Djokovic case exposes unfair treatment of refugees in Au...

The expression is used only three times. And later: Hinger propositions are those which must be taken as true in order to play the game. They constitu...

I'm so pleased for you.

It should be obvious. If you own it, someone else does not. Without someone else, ownership is meaningless. But I doubt that you are constitutional ca...

You gave it a name. Congratulations.

Universalise this. Apply it to everyone.

Narcissism would prevent someone seeing the role played by others in ownership.

China, not Russia. And just to repeat:

You missed the point. You don't own anything except in relation to those around you. SO it would not be your wealth.

At first I thought that "not to carry" referred to guns.... I haven't been following this thread for a fee days; so there may be something I missed, b...

Laughable. Russia doesn't figure in Australian politics. A little bit of nuance is appropriate. Our friend fits the bill nicely. Poppies are valued fo...

It depends if he can back up his claim to have had Covid in December, despite not having been in isolation while positive. Dubious.

At least Nero fiddled while his Government did nothing Dougie isn't happy.

Something to contemplate: ..is Scott Morrison’s media strategy starting to fail? The strategy is simple: Defend Morrison at all cost. Combined that wi...

Real abstract objects... as opposed to fake abstract objects? Counterfeit abstract objects? Imaginary abstract objects? Back again to Austin's critiqu...

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I've been making your misfire apparent for page after page. From my very first reply to you on the toipc: Anyway, perhaps we are finished here.

You failed to notice the conditional: If they admire evil, ought they be allowed to the table?

It's not just information. It's an agreement that involves actions on the part of the parties. Even if the records of the mortgage disappeared, the ob...

I tend to leave the to you; case in point: I'm presently at a lose to see what it is that I have said that you are finding so objectionable that you a...

Well, perhaps they are caught in the same sort of circularity as @"Hanover".

Doubtless; but nevertheless there are those who woudl do so.

@"Ennui Elucidator", @"Hanover", seems the best you can argue is that the bible reinforces a morality you already accept. That's fine.

You have to then insist on the authority of your own conventions over those of the folk who would stone adulterers. But it being a question of convent...

What? Thou shalt not bear false witness.

They would if allowed. One can of course provide all manor of examples of morally deplorable positions that folk claim are evidenced from the bible. Y...

But not Southern Baptists. Again, this is special pleading. You ignore those who are using the book, who when you ask them what it means, provide an a...

Such fine Circumlocution. So do we have agreement that, like you and your wife, there are contradictions here? You both appear to be insisting that th...

It's become an odd thread. We seem to have general agreement that hell is an unjust notion, and hence a disavowal of those who would claim otherwise, ...

No, Harry. The mortgage is an agreement. But this sort of thing has been explained to you before, by many folk.