Banno

You and I both see the rainbow. The use of the word "rainbow" isn't determined solely by its attachment to a private sensation; it's rather that when ...

Sure. And that propositional content, by definition, can be put into words. If it can't, it's not propositional content. SO you might express it in so...

So while psychology might have something to say here, philosophy remains irrelevant, or silent.

It's about what can, and what can't, be said.

by you just stated Jack’s belief. You can’t state a belief that can’t be stated.

Then it's not a belief. It might be a sensation, a sentiment. But if it is a belief, it is a belief that such-and-such.

Ah, god as the beetle in the box!

But that's exactly what is going on here. Rejecting the myth of the given is presupposed by the article - that's what foundationalism is. So you might...

I agree that if you change the use you change the criteria of basicality. What is basic depends on what one is doing. So there is a sense in which, sa...

Doubt for doubt's sake.

Well, see Sam's posts. Ask him, if you don't follow. It's his argument.

So, there are basic beliefs? Or are you setting out a definition of basic beliefs, which you claim is empty? Considering

That's the topic here - but for any belief. Perhaps, Albert has no reason to doubt his experience. So it is basic for Albert. But Benjamin does have r...

If you can reasonably doubt it, then it is not a basic belief. A basic belief is groundless, in that it is not dependent on, nor justified by, any oth...

Sure; can you fill in the gaps, so that we less versed in the Summa might understand what is being claimed, perhaps in the light of the article?

See Sam's argument; seeing a tree is not something that could be doubted, while the tree is before you. But hearing the voice of god while reading the...

You know I will disagree with you one this; it implies that a properly basic belief is could not in principle be stated.

Thank you, Sam, for participating. Plantinga wants to treat basic beliefs as part of the epistemological game; he is looking for a suitable analysis, ...

IN truth I was expecting the thread to quickly fall victim to the religious fervour infecting the forums - as . The other danger is the one you cite -...

Yeah, Thing is, I'm making the same point I have been making for years.

Sam!

Neither,

Causes are a form of justification. Just about anything goes. So, yep - why not?

Not I. Oh, it was me. Here.

Indeed, it does; but does it succeed?

@"Sam26"?

Did anyone read the article? The error is in thinking... There seems to me a contradiction involved in setting out basic beliefs as dependent on anyth...

I wonder if folk just have a hard time accepting how bare being true is. It's this bareness, this lack of anything more, that is shown by the T-senten...

Shit, you read that quickly.

Nearly got to 100.

You're not even trying. Come back when you want to learn.

Wife has a disability and we advocate. Your point, which I would rephrase in terms of the privileged being unable to see their privilege, is central t...

Justice.

Harry, have a read at this: Certainty Do you think that this article is adequately summed up by your Merriam-Webster definition? What, in the article,...

Hm. Compare again the quote: and what you asked: It seems to me that these are not the same. That a person would prefer to have all their limbs is not...

What do you think? Tell me where you are in your own thinking. Feel free to be guided by the article. SO Do you think this is saying the same thing as...

Well, given that we know it, it follows that it is true. But I don't think that you asked the question you meant to ask.

I'm thankful for coffee.

Whereof one cannot speak... And yet you try.

...and here is Harry in a knutshell. Isn't it glorious to see the rich variety of thinking that is displayed in the forums? Harry knows things that ar...

mmmm. It just isn’t.

http://cdrnys.org/blog/uncategorized/ableism/

-Anscombe SO is Satre's existentialism to be counted here along side Sedgwick? One is free to choose authenticity at the expense of justice, after all...

Ah. Ok, I'll take your word for that.

Sure. If someone insists that they can know things that are not true, there is really no point in continuing the discussion. The problem is not that t...

...and this is why I don't pay much attention to your posts.

@"unenlightened" as a christian existentialist? Sartre sets shame as the way the in-itself becomes the for-others. One sees oneself as being objectifi...

That's a tad exaggerated. But yes, wear my condemnation with pride. At the least, it will earn you another few dozen posts on this pustulant thread.

Martha Nussbaum mentions fragility.