Yeah. The better philosophical conversations are the ones that pick out what is coherent from what isn't. That's, on some accounts, what doing philoso...
No. I know the cat is on the chair but it could have been on the mat. Hence "the cat is on the chair" is true but could have been false. Better to use...
Folk seem to think that if, if we know something then it is true, then we can never be mistaken. Think on it a bit. If we think we know something and ...
Why the modality? Are you asking if ~K~p?K~?~p ? Well, no, since p does not have the same truth value as ?p. Drop the modal operator, do you have ~K~p...
Fixed that for you. Shanon's equations and the work following do not equate energy and information. Wishful thinking on your part. The grain of truth ...
Modal contexts (what if's...) are stipulated. So the world could have be any way you might wish it to be. Your parents might never have met, or had a ...
Not sure how to read that. Are you saying that, a priori, we cannot know false propositions - that all the propositions we know are not false? Or are ...
If we know something is true we must know it is not false. That's not the same as that it cannot* be false. It's not knowledge that is defeasible, but...
The root is mete, not mens. Measurement, not mind. And again, your own sources say this. Nor does science equate information with energy. Bits are not...
Well, no, it doesn't. "God did it" is one way to end the causal chain; there are of course others. That chain is set up by framing physics in terms of...
Must I again point out the difference between "P is true" and "I know that P is true". These are not the same. The link between them is that one canno...
I'm not seeing a difference between a justification and an understanding. In both cases what we know should fit in with our other explanations. It's a...
Seems to me that folk read JTB as the claim that in order to know something, we must know that it is true. It's hard to get across that this is not wh...
Perhaps we should honour him by treating his murder in his own terms. Any empathy expressed for his family is a made up New Age notion that does a lot...
With good reason. A purse carries money, carrying money being a custom in times of yore, before the advent of the smartphone. Brined tuna is better fo...
Same same. They tend to be found together. "Perchance it be" means "if it is", or at best "perhaps it is"; not "yes". "I'm given to understand" is mor...
That's the consequence of your interpretation of Jung. You can't say '“world” always means world-for-us', because other people are as much a part of t...
Yeah, it is. You are now agreeing that there is more than just mind - that the mind does not created the world, but perhaps structures it. That's a st...
This is the part were we agree that there is something external to the mind, and then you loop around and claim that we can only know about it using t...
Whereas, even if humanity is a "mere blip" and "an accident", it is we who provide values, who decides what is worthwhile; and what is not, and that m...
It's the far-reaching conclusion - the chip, the theory, and all of the componentry of that experiment, are products of the mind - therefore...? Do we...
The failure of that argument is I hope obvious to those reading on - whomever they are. You've expanded "consciousness" to include everything humans e...
When, in the guts of the chip on which you are typing, a quantum tunnel sets off a current in a transistor, you are not aware of it. No one is. And ye...
I have, here: You would jump from "measurement involves interaction between observer and observed" to "consciousness creates reality". There's a bit o...
See the reply to Joshs, above. This: sits exactly in agreement with the view I've expressed, and contrary to your need for further metaphysics. You ar...
Not according to the Copenhagen interpretation. We have the calculations, they work with extreme accuracy, and nothing more is needed from an explanat...
While "grammar is a product of the mind", it is also embedded in the world. Rather than being forced to choose between realism and idealism, we might ...
You've misread your own reference. sure, m?ns (“mind”) is from PIE *men- (“to think”), but mens?ra (“to measure”) is form from PIE *meh?- (“to measure...
, . We differentiate between what is believed, understood, thought and so on, and what is true. We do this becasue sometimes what we take to be true i...
Again, in the Nature survey, the data is as follows: Does a measurement require an observer? Yes, and they must be conscious: 9% Yes, but consciousnes...
You've always seem to me to avoid it only by an appeal to mysticism or changing the subject. Even accepting Bergson's distinction between time and dur...
A pretty sketchy notion. Indeed. We can detect consciousness. That's why we differentiate between some's being asleep and awake... And we differentiat...
It's a problem for solipsism generally. And Idealism has a great deal of difficulty avoiding solipsism. If to be is to be perceived then things cease ...
Is that a third way? The clincher is the dynamic between a complete, incorrect account and an incomplete, correct account. I'm advocating the latter, ...
I hadn't noticed this thread. But I covered much the same topic in my thread Two Ways To Philosophise. The trouble with a complete picture is that it ...
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