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I wonder if we might also go over some related objections - Davidson, as well as Watkins. Perhaps until Sam raises an objection to our being off topic...

Compare and contrast Belief with true But see were-o- and leubh- One desires one's beliefs to be verified...

, @"Isaac", @"Sam26" See, what has happened is that a language game developed in which we differentiated between what is the case and what we thought ...

Justified true belief.

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I just do not see that these support the invention of a special category of beliefs that would be entitled to the label "prelinguistic" or "nonlinguis...

If @"creativesoul" and @"Sam26" said "unexpressed" instead of "prelinguistic", I'd be quieted.

Which, see.

We really should move all this off @"Sam26"'s thread.

Yeah, there seems to be an incipient idealism in some of what @"Isaac" says.

@"Isaac", it seems to me that our differences are small. You seem to think that what I have argued somehow contradicts the excellent work done in rece...

IF you doubt this, you should be able to give an example of a belief that is not a belief that such-and-such is the case.

No need to go to such extremes. I suspect that you believe that my house has a front door, and yet had not given that belief any consideration until j...

If you are going to appeal to an authority you had best reference it. My suspicion is that the solidity, consistency and constancy of objects is in th...

Again, that's unfair. Of course there is some neurological explanation for the cat's behaviour. What I am objecting to is your calling that neurologic...

I mentioned before that there seems to me that there is something a bit unfair in sugesting that I ought produce empirical evidence. Look at what you ...

"Taking to be the case" does not seem to me to need include "giving one's attention to"... The question at hand, then, is does "A believes p" imply "A...

Yeah. The usual excuse.

Apparently I'm suffering a hangover from the anaesthetic, 'cause I don't see a reductio there...

All three...?

Yep.

I'm happy for you to use "belief" in any way you like. I'm just pointing out that using it to mean what is take as true is not the same as using it to...

What correlations do you mean here - are they important to your point? You seem to think this is an important point, but I don't see how. The sense in...

No, he's an egoist.

Absence of disproof is not proof.

Well, I'd take a linguistic turn and point out that our conversation can be about anything, and hence that existing and being part of the conversation...

Only if you have the ingredients for bride cake.

Well, so long as it does not pretend to be physics, and hence to actually say something about how things are, perhaps that would do. So we will treat ...

Welcome to philosophical analysis - working out what it is you want to ask. As opposed to the sort of philosophy that just makes stuff up. What you ar...

"Wrong" is a bit harsh; misguided, perhaps On occasions, I teach kids. I've several times been involved in setting up and running philosophy for child...

Never a good idea. Capitalism per se does as you say - self interest as opposed to selfishness. Note that capitalism involves a free market with multi...

Well, everything that has an effect is a cause... You seem to be wanting to replace effect with perception. Something like: are all causes perceived? ...

@"Luke", @"Isaac", and excellent discussion. "...can..." - my bolding. It seems to me that in your neurological musings you want to make use of the wo...

Do cats eat bats? OR, when challenged, change the topic. Do bats eat cats?

Laughed out loud - literally - at the way you reduced programming to using variables in the OP: As if all the other terms in a programs were not also ...

You sure 'bout that? You see, this paragraph does not ask anything, Despite the question marks. It's not like "What time is is?", it's like "Why is a ...

Yes, that's what I understand, too. But one ought not underestimate the power of human creativity...

I would have thought selfishness was the defining neo-liberal notion. Not that selfishness was not present in classical liberalism, but that in neo-li...

The odd thing is that , regardless of who you might have been, you could have asked the same question. If you have six people in a line, the chances o...

These are not the same question.

So if I line up all the surreal numbers along a line, and we ignore the imaginaries for a bit, what number is missing? My understanding is, none. Perh...

Ha! Saw what you did there...

You seem to think you are saying something coherent. I'm not so sure. Nor I. Although I agree with the bit about the bible being full of paradox.

No.

It's as if I had argued that a brick is not a cow, and you replied by asking me for experimental evidence to support my claim.

Ah. The Dogma. If my previous argument is successful in showing that what is taken to be the case is not the same as a state of mind, then perhaps it ...

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What exactly distinguishes one from the other? That's all I'm asking. If it is saying that there are beliefs that have and others that have not been e...

Seems to me, in my novice terms, that the left part describes some sequence with the surreal number as its lower limit, and the right number describes...

There's something unconvincing about an argument, from which the key term can be removed... ...so what exactly was conceptual doing there?