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Might leave you to think on that. Did you mean "truth-apt" or "true"? Truth-apt is capable of being either true or false. Can one have beliefs that ar...

You have to believe whatever is proffered as justification, if it is to serve its purpose.

Truth isn't up for debate - that'd be belief.

Perhaps an example...

Language games occur within a way of living; is that what you have in mind?

More often than not. SO, what do you make of the notion of an alternate fact?

I'll deny that! Which might say nothing more than that some fools will doubt anything just for kicks. It reamins to be shown that unreasonable sceptic...

Well, no; it pays to be pedantic here. There are no untrue states of affairs; if it is the case, then it it true. So a fact is a state of affairs.

Archaic language. Understanding that facts are true is part of learning the language game around facts and truth.

A statement will be a fact if and only if it is true. Seems pretty straight forward.

So far as it fits. There are plenty of venture capitalist Nietzscheans. There are arch-rationalists amongst them, but for the most part I think their ...

Nah. Gotta go build new beds for this year's spuds. They should already be in the ground.

What could a fact be, if not how things are? What could truth be, if not how things are? It's how the game is played.

Being true is what a fact does. If you disagree, then you are on your own.

And that isn't true of F=ma?

There are no untrue facts.

Knowledge is true; facts are true. Where's the issue?

Any condescension exists only in your interpretation. Make your point explicit; or draw a picture.

The key here is that if you could set out in words what it is that a piece expresses, then there would be no need for the piece. Art happens because w...

Fine, move from subject/object to purpose. That'd be an improvement.

Putting the distinction in terms of subjective and objective experience doesn't help. The artwork is there, before you, as objective as a rock. Scienc...

The most telling criticism of Feyerabend - and I ought look up its source - is that if anything goes, then everything stays. If our interpretations an...

Yes. That is, in true Feyerabendian style, once the sense is expressed it can be undermined. Anything goes. Sure; but it goes deeper than that, doesn'...

It's Watarrka art, an example of dot painting. There's a story that dot painting developed after colonisation as a way of encoding sacred knowledge so...

I agree; art history makes sense. If "the transition between one stage of artistic development and the next is a transition between incommensurables" ...

And yet we can discuss Newtonian physics, despite having some grasp of modern physics. If incommensurable means that we use different standards of jud...

I suggest that such a general claim: "Aboriginal art shows an objective view on Nature" - is mere appropriation, an attempt to contain a culture withi...

http://www.watarrkafoundation.org.au/img/news/Screen%20Shot%202019-02-13%20at%204.08.10%20pm.png I'm not seeing it... Do you know of a copy of Feyerab...

Triviality has function; in this case, the social role of easing indignation.

That comes out in the Minefield podcast. :razz: Actually, that is the conclusion to which analytic philosophy leads.

I don't follow fashion; I am fashion.

I would argue that an issue caused by the absence of drugs is indeed the result of drugs. It's next to the BOLD button.

I have an old tweed jacket or two, several sizes too small by now, at the back of the wardrobe. I can't bring myself to pass them on. SO comfortable. ...

Tea? There's your problem, right there... I gather from the ambience hereabouts that I've walked back into a bit of a shitstorm. I'm not going to go b...

...more that Afghanistan is essentially ungovernable because it is not a unit; not an individual. Hence, applying the philosophical issues of individu...

Oooo, that'd be pushing it. We might agree that there is at least something here that is worth a second look. The data for those with masters qualific...

Odd. It was @"Isaac", not you, whom I had taken to be thinking King was rejecting the data; the conversation was following on from my previous reply t...

Presumably - and I am speculating - the survey included doctors and nurses in the professional qualification category? Note also that the steady level...

Here's two people talking: Was US failure in Afghanistan inevitable? ...and a guest, Stephen Wertheim. In the introduction there's discussion of the n...

Frank was a bit selective. Here's the whole text: King is not rejecting the data, but pointing to it's inadequacies - which are much the same as we ag...

Where's that? Seems to me that spotting fraud would be fairly straight forward in such a big study. If 5% of respondents claimed to have a PhD, I woul...

I had a quick look for more studies, and found only a small study at Qatar University that did not have sufficient granularity to reproduce the result...

The paper only suggests more research, which is appropriate. It was others who took the data too far.

That seems pretty unlikely. Undergrads should be aware of the malleability of stats. I doubt you need a PhD for this; nor would a PhD in English Lit l...

Would Kant Have Worn a Face Mask? A short piece that goes beyond the obvious to ask if asking you to wear a mask is an act of tyranny:

Not from Prishon, no.

You might not be aware that my comments were on a novel thread created by Prishon, which caught my attention and to which I posted prior to it's being...

What do you want? Yes, the result is interesting. Have you an explanation?

Yep.

As cowardly as being scared of a needle?