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That quote is appalling. At least I put some effort into my "smarmy quips".

Well, no. I adopted your talk of properties simply for expediency. The salient feature for you seems to me to be that being true is a property of stat...

It's not just in philosophy that you can believe anything you want. Perhaps it's just that philosophers are a bit more explicit about why they believe...

...which would be pretty unconvincing. No, that's a gross simplification. Wittgenstein for children.

What to do with this. As if anaesthetic did not exist. AS if one did not sleep. As I said, you are credulous, I'm incredulous.

Australia recently doubled the cost of Humanities degrees, while lowering the cost for STEM subjects. And a week later greatly increased its military ...

You are too credulous.

Sure. It might not be a good idea to pretend to be in control when you are not. Better to become comfortable with uncertainty.

Thanks for the questions. I've been considering them. While Wittgenstein urged us to look to ordinary language, he also sort to correct confusion by c...

The incredulous stare is still the appropriate response.

All looks a bit too eccentric for my tastes. Yep, folk make stuff up.

What is one to do with junk thinking such as this? Yep, hills are piles of dirt. Electrons are measurable, manipulable, adn calculable. The awareness ...

Are rocks conscious? If not, and yet people are, then at some stage between rocks and people, consciousness emerges.

Actually, I've done this myself - dropping balls one at a time, slowly, so that my students could see the curve build.

A language game is just a family of rules around a group of words and deeds. Problems arise with irregularities; such as when the words are moved to a...

Being a language game is not a bad thing...

That from one who quotes Rand...

:grin: Have you looked at I am a strange loop? It's dreadful, but also excellent. Your constructs within constructs... strange loops indeed. There mig...

Not so much. The notion of a reality-in-itself as ineffable is something that philosophers of a certain ilk will talk about ad nauseam, and apparently...

OK.

Stoopid question #1.

I've long argued that the distinction is misleading. I'm not sure what the word "perception" is doing there. It's unclear what you are claiming, so I'...

Yes; but then you are going back to quantum phenomena to produce randomness. What we in the article though is indeterminism in a classical system with...

It's just Spike Milligan, Lewis Carrol, Edward Lear, are better at nonsense than Kant or your namesake. :razz: Even when it convinces you that rocks a...

So back to the Anscombe article, and that last bit... Presumably this is a reference to Davidson's first paper, Actions, Reasons and Causes. SEP sets ...

Rand. :down: You gonna have to work to get respect now. So you want I should relate to a rock, and make the assumption that it is conscious. Nuh.

...but see https://mathworld.wolfram.com/RandomNumber.html Rand() is an algorithm.

I'll take that as praise. Compared to those who think rocks are conscious, yes I do. Metaphysics is where you make stuff up because you don't know wha...

Slippery slope fallacy.

Hmm. I'm going to be pedantic and point out that chaotic systems are algorithmically calculable... so if you put in a "1" you will get the same result...

There's no easy way to find longest threads that I am aware of; but one would have to go a long way to beat the Trump thread. My record on this forum ...

Yep. @"Pfhorrest", do I understand correctly that you disagree? I'm not following what you are saying about chaotic systems. For instance given any po...

The probability of one ball falling in any particular bin is given by the normal curve.

Not evasive; the property is hollow. You keep asking what justifies a belief, but putting it in terms of how to tell if something is true.

Yeah, sometimes we think a proposition belongs in the 'true' bin when it doesn't. That is, sometimes our beliefs are wrong. The statement does not go ...

So you set out your statements and your two bins, and you look a the first statement "this leaf is green". Which bin do you put it in? Why? I'm thinki...

See the WIki article. One couldn't have asked for a better author to validate @"Gregory"'s argument.

Ah, my bad; I wrongly assumed that by "they" you meant Dunning and Kruger, not the clandestine "they" of conspiracy theorists. But I see now that talk...

I just thought they might have much in common.

I think you should have a chat with @"Metaphysician Undercover".

Where did Dunning and Kruger or the subsequent studies make us of IQ? Or are you offering further examples?

Such a memorable name.

:rofl: :lol:

Indeed, the most cogent defence of Dunning-Kruger I have seen today. When we add this to gems such as: ...boom this is deep stuff! So today's Trophy f...

Simplest interpretation is that he doesn't understand a measurement's being accurate to within a certain error. Now that's Lesson 1 in physics. Same s...

See this. Harry's out of his depth.

...but one ball or a thousand, the result is still a normal distribution. So despite causality being after the event we can predict the outcome. Is th...

There goes the Kalam cosmological argument.

The tracking I was talking about was in keeping clear what we were doing with words. Such as In this example IP starts by asking a question that is ap...