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I agree; I was using the phrase in order to be clear with Javra. Knowledge by acquaintance is a furphy.

On that we can agree.

Cheers. Let me reflect back to you what I take you to have been saying, so that you can correct my error. I had presented an argument that knowledge b...

I agree. That in effect is the topic of my thread on Confirmable and influential Metaphysics. Quite right. It is worthy of note that this thread puts ...

You can say that, but doing so fails to notice the very great difference between your dog's knowledge and your own. I don't see that you are addressin...

My apologies. Point me to it.

Chaos theory brings what was previously unexplained within the comfort of mathematics. So, yes.

AH. So adhering to the OP. It's not meant to be factually correct, because we found out that it doesn't match the facts. What would one think if we ha...

He's the fellow who was ecstatic that the writings "of the Greeks have all but perished and been obliterated... Where is Plato? nowhere! Where Paul? I...

I'd like to hear what you think.

To my eye you've missed a more interesting distinction - between knowing that... and knowing how...; knowing that the cup is red as against knowing ho...

That scared 'em... , , . Just what has defied explanation, perhaps as a result of lack of order, perhaps as a result of insufficient knowledge. Naive ...

That is exactly what is in contention, so merely asserting it is not presenting an argument. Does your dog know that you will shut the door at midday?

Very good. Looks like hedging your bets. It's the saying that gives a dollar its value, that makes a contract binding, that makes a promise an obligat...

Thank you. Your comparison with Quine came to mind as I wrote I'm not sure "anthropological holism" is an accurate term. Partly because I am somewhat ...

IN the case of a private sensation, yes.

Yes, that, I think, is a common objection, to which the first reply is : "… whatever is going to seem correct to me is correct. And that only means th...

This is interesting. But this is a major theme: knowledge by acquaintance is problematic. From the start of PI Wittgenstein examines ostension. He sta...

Well, yes, I do tend to a prejudice against entitled prats.

I quite like that.

Barnaby Joyce defends Christian Porter's decision to remain in Parliament after resigning from Cabinet I can not say how much it gladdens my heart to ...

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Thanks. From that, a subsidiary question: Is that the Bishop moves only diagonally a fact? This by way of digging further into facts as issues of what...

Cheers.

SO present your case.

I don't think so. Show me that they made this claim. Not that it is not a special case, but that it is not a fact. And you claim facts are the result ...

Wittgenstein as a phenomenologist. Presumably not of the Heideggerian school? Wittgenstein was not promulgating coherentism. But I have an interest in...

Nothing there is inconsistent with the destruction of classical culture by Christianity, nor with monotheism being inherently intolerant when in power...

Repeat your claim as often as you wish; Where? Quote it here. All you have done is make an unfounded assertion. But thank you for posting again, and I...

Interesting. So.... In that millisecond you are supposedly making a judgement - "Does that count as a pain?" But do you want to go further and doubt t...

A question - is that the area of a circle is given by ? r² a fact? Who says no? How is this confirmed by observation?

That long? I thought it less. Consider that the accusations of bias result from his choosing a close analysis of the documentation, as opposed to the ...

Yep. It's a doctrine built on the confirmation bias. Nothing to see here.

Hmm. The thesis is that monotheism and power lead to intolerance; that Christian intolerance became evident as they gained politically. The Jews in th...

A truly unremarkable reply. If my citations are selective, then out them with your own citations.

This is Kenny's point. Or rather, Kenny shines light on the answer that is found in PI. It's not the failure of memory that is central to the argument...

:up: Notice here the pile-on of apologists? Notice how they do not make reference to historical documents? Notice the ad hom nature of their arguments...

It is pretty clear that Rome was at a loss as to how to deal with a group so set in their superstition. See Pliny the Younger's letter to Trajan. Plin...

The rhythm is acoustic, and not a n acoustic in sight. ...love all the funky white-guy steps, and especially now 'Hank'(!?) Marvin pushes his glasses ...

Gibbon was the first to ignore the myths Christianity built around itself, and so to address the history. That doing so is seen as being "anti-religio...

Good call. Doubtless miming for the publicity shot.

If you look closely you can see I got baptised, too.

Spot on. Differentiating between beliefs and truths is pivotal to acknowledging and correcting error. You'd have to agree with that,

That doesn't follow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvIYaYvVImc Well I suppose it was a contributing influence to the Beach Boys, and they were around longer than the Sto...

...but with global warming, the sea will be deeper...? Coal fired submarines.

Perfect fit. He can go punce about and have no one pay him any attention at all.

Not being able to tell which way something is moving because it is facing in the opposite direction is - shall we say prime facie - stupid. But in the...

Christian Porter has resigned from Scott Morrison's ministry. Happy now. Expect him back in a subsequent reshuffle.

...not sure that applies to heuristic machines. Hence my point about those with disabilities.