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Well, that's just not right. But rather than pursue the issue here, I'm thinking a new thread is needed. I'm thinking of starting a more general chat ...

Oh. broad beans - yes, heaps of those, many that over-wintered, and are already in flower. "Aquadulce". Chard was odd this year, usually a staple, did...

Beans is good. I's had trouble germinating them this season. Usually grow snake beans and Blue Lake. You? Peas are doing well.

My mentions just topped 30k. Just sayin'.

Ok. I still don't see that isn't a tautology - or so close as to make no nevermind.

Cool. I took that as read. I think the point still stands. "the future will most likely resemble the past, because the future has, as far as we know, ...

Might leave this were it is. Check out the SEP link. The Model Theory to which I referred is a branch of mathematics.

In model theory, a model is a structure that makes a formal system’s sentences true. I think we are at cross purposes.

The grand edifice. I’ll stick with the patch I can walk on, the language I can play with, the practices I can follow. That’s enough to get things done...

So you would use model theory to explain induction? An interesting idea. What do you have in mind? There'd need to be a move from the preservation of ...

That’s a lot to unpack, Apo. You’ve got Bayes, neural nets, and pragmatism all packed into one explanatory hierarchy. Impressive, but maybe overengine...

All-round military hero, climate change denying anti-immigration anti-gay who wants us to prepare for war with China. So yes, let's hope the Libs choo...

Perhaps we all can reach some agreement that Bayesian calculus of one sort or another is a rational response to Hume's problem?

I still do not understand this. "We can by inductive reasoning" just is "the future will resemble the past". It's re-stating, not explaining. Added: T...

Cheers, Apo. Tell me more about me. Yes, the representative vocab can be understood enactively. Bayes formalises Peirce’s approach if you like. We can...

I don't see anyone here suggesting extreme scepticism - including Hume. His point seems to be pretty much the one you are now making. There is a norma...

And this is to agree with Hume. Here's the OP: Seems to me that JuanZu is pointing to the prima facie discrepancy between our being confident in a bel...

We could apply a Bayesian calculus to any old guess, and move towards a better guess, sure. That's one possible solution to Hume's scepticism. Very mu...

At issue is finding a solution to Hume's scepticism. That is, how we can move from a finite set of observations to the "objectively best" general conc...

So an inference to the best explanation is actually an inference to any explanation?

For Wittgenstein, the demand for justification presupposes a language game, a shared background of practices that already give meaning to “evidence,” ...

Each of those - Kant, Wittgenstein, Feyerabend and Davidson - can be understood as a reply to Hume.

We seem to be circling. Being warranted means to be rationally justified, and something is rationally justified if it is warranted. The best explanati...

That's a very compacted account, yet pretty much spot on. Yep, for us to experience objects and events as structured and intelligible, the transcenden...

Isn't "warranted" just another way of saying "best"? If it's best, then it's warranted, and if it is the one warranted move, then it's the best? Furth...

Ok, thanks - that's clearer. So values always supervene on properties, and hence intrinsic values are those that supervene on intrinsic properties. Se...

Well, I won't disagree, but point out that "the best" remains ill-defined. If we are in agreement as to which explanation is the best, then we should ...

I hope we are in a position to see the problem with the argument as it stands. Some item X has properties a,b,c... Moral values supervene on these pro...

Good. Then we are agreed that abduction, considered as inference to the "best" explanation, does not determine one explanation, and is not itself a ra...

Just so.

What I've read, including the paper I've already cited, leads me to think that the term functions in the way offten described by Bernard Wooley in Yes...

This is a good approximation, perhaps. We do make inferences, sure. The question I would bring back to you is that of what makes one inference "the be...

Yes, I see that. So you are right here: Here you show again that the value supervenes on the property. It appears to me that what you have shown is th...

And will continue to be so, as long as you two talk about me rather then the topic at hand. You don't have to make this a conversation about me. But y...

An example, maybe: suppose, for the sake of the discussion, that moral value is an attitude adopted towards some thing. Then we might say that having ...

From you, yes.

Your engaging in yet an another conversation about me instead of about my arguments is gratifying. It implies you have no were left to go.

A dignified exit from a poor thread. You did some nice work here.

Excellent first post, by the way. Welcome.

Nice. Can you clarify what it is to be morally valuable? Does having a moral value "supervene on some of our essential properties", or is it itself a ...

Hastie has resigned from the front bench - he can do more damage to Ley, the leader of the opposition, - if he is not bound by the conventions of bein...

Just noticed an article in the recent Philosophy Now that is germane: Popper, Science & Democracy.

Things are stirring... Georgian Dream claims victory in all municipal elections in first round Georgia’s police use water cannons on protesters trying...

The point is clear, I hope - evidence is always equivocal. There is always a point about which folk may disagree. No one would disagree ( :wink: ). At...

Take a look at this.

First issue is whether abduction is just brainstorming, or if it includes some selection amongst the hypotheses generated. To you, it seems it does. T...

Me, too. It's intended to show how the "why" doesn't end satisfactorily in at least some cases. There's a whole side road concerning intentionality he...

Yep. See the musings added to the previous post. You've got me rethinking my reply to Un. Is there a problem?

Given your rudeness and ridicule, why should I respond to your posts? Your worldview strikes me as sophistic bullshit.

That'd be more a "how" than a "why" - how the avalanche started rather than why. Yep. What's proposed is causation not as an external “thing to be exp...