The invitation in your OP was to consider how we use the word"cause", and you showed that causal chains and inferring probabilistic causes are quite d...
Ok. Curious, since I would not have thought it so far from your "What constitutes the cause is a matter of convention, not fact". That the reed hittin...
So yeah, whether the speech act counts as an act of violence is incidental to the speaker being culpable. If you have time, take a look at at least th...
As opposed to the assumption that we don't know what being out of the cave looks like... Yep. That we know about our unconscious shows that it is not ...
Ok, fair enough. His is an answer for everything, so certainly not my cup of tea. There appear to be various quite different sorts of causal accounts,...
Wouldn't one response be, T Clark, that identifying a dichotomy also depends on were you look? That what constitutes a dichotomy is also a matter of c...
Indeed. But that is the opinion expressed hereabouts. It has a place in the Sovereign Citizen virus, which has become more prominent Dow Nunder. It's ...
I appreciate your continuing with this thread, Javra. I'd given it away, as on a par with the discussions of gun law and transgender issues - too frau...
The who in JTB is most reliant on the belief. That's where the propositional attitude enters, and so the person who has the attitude. Hence if you kno...
Never. It's a method, not an answer. Three areas of interest, at least to me, are probabilities, and counterfactuals, and the relation between causati...
These are the classical Aristotelian varieties of cause. They are supposed by Aristotelians to be quite general. But they are not unproblematic. At th...
Due, what's the "T"? If a sentence satisfies JTB, then it is true. Further, from "B", those who say that it satisfies the JTB account agree that it is...
Well, no. If S is some sentence that satisfies the criteria JTB, then by that very fact it is true; by that very fact it is already verified; and by t...
One knows one will go for a walk later today if and only if one does indeed go for a walk later today. that is, if "I will go for a walk later today" ...
Tim is playing pretty loosely with "possible". It's not the case that if some sentence is true, it is not possible for it to be false, in any but a ve...
Yep. I pointed this out a couple of times previously. Again, there is a difference between P being true and it being established that P is true. @"J" ...
Cheers. I'm reading some secondary material on Adorno, after my brief encounter here. And you are correct, overcoming the individualism of Kant, Hegel...
"As if to encourage continued conflict, some of this body are seeking to unilaterally recognise a Palestinian state," Mr Trump said at the UN. "Unilat...
The offer certainly is not mere pragmatism. That one rock and another rock is two rocks is not a question of practicality so much as of grammar. The s...
The SEP article on metaphysics of causation offers an analysis in terms of type and token that looks promising. And reduction to "probabilities, regul...
https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2025/06/PP-2025.6.26_validated-voters_2-06.png The facts are readily available. Notice this, t...
, yes, I agree with , an excellent post. I do hope that the US has the resilience to move beyond its present malaise, and expect that it does. In the ...
Downunder, the most popular variety is the "Lebanese cucumber". https://images.sbs.com.au/drupal/yourlanguage/public/cucumber_pic_1.jpeg?imwidth=1280 ...
We have to start somewhere, and it seems that a sentence's being true is at least as good a place as any. I mentioned previously the circularity of an...
Indeed. You and I see this. What of them? :wink: Another Conversation article spoke about McCarthyism, and the inept far-right “cancel culture” that c...
Yes! And thanks for introducing me to "pleonasm". There's a tension in his writing that it might be best to acknowledge rather than to try to sort out...
Sure. "Discovered" is not my word. After rejecting of the rule of others, one might look to rule with others. Who we are is also who they are. I'll ac...
Certainly not. Why do you ask? Canada provides sufficient, in exchange for our cutting edge over the horizon radar technology, permitting them to keep...
The heat induces the Maillard reaction, browning the pumpkin - caramelisation and much more flavour. Ripe pumpkin should be sweet enough without extra...
Well, yes, and the issue there is the same as elsewhere - finding a balance between being able to express an opinion while not being permitted to inci...
Oh, Ok. Analysis in terms of illocutions and perlocutions - speech and its consequences - provides a structure in which to understand the act as a who...
At some stage one might grow to recognise oneself as a member of a community, to acknowledge the need in others to also overcome themselves. And then ...
I continue to think there is a consideration of scope here that is missing from your account. Notice that knowing is an attitude towards the propositi...
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