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It's not that we need evolution or Bayesian analysis or thermodynamics in order to plan. It's rather the other way around; if any of these disbarred t...

It's an almost correct point. Sometimes they are helpful in working out what can and can't be said. But one only has to look at the interminable argum...

They are not necessary certainties. Just certainties. They do not hav to apply in every possible world.

I may have missed it, but I don't see how you deal with the argument I quoted, which seems to show that hinge statements cannot be propositional becau...

Avocado and poached eggs on toast, as it happens. I put the half avocado in the fridge with the intent of keeping it until tomorrow. I keep chickens b...

So before we invented entropy we could not plan our lunch. Your account is just too complex.

Quine's Two Dogmas has great relevance here. Partly in dismissing the analytic/synthetic distinction, but mostly in showing that reductionism fails. K...

But the future is not like the past. Yesterday I had a full bottle of red. Now it is only half full. Supposing that the future is like the past requir...

An excellent post. From your source: So if you are to maintain that hinge propositions are beliefs, you must maintain that they are propositional. Tha...

:-# My apologies for entertaining Apo on you thread, Sam. I will get back to your well considered comments soon.

youve taken what should be a common curtesy towards Sam as the instigator of this thread and turned it into an excuse for your not starting a thread O...

but the ukulele calls. And it is much more enjoyable than your good self.

start a new thread. Let’s try to keep this one clean for Sam.

I'm off to a jam session. Way fun! 8-)

Notice that you are not asking if it is true, but if it should be believed - what justification it has. That's the trouble with pragmatism. It does no...

You do now.

X-) It appears to me that you are an honest correspondent; I appreciate that. You manage to hold your own without resorting to insults, veiled or othe...

OK. Next?

Apo, a reminder that you are a sideshow here. This is a thread about On Certainty, not about Pragmatism. You did not answer the question. If you did, ...

"P" is true IFF P. That's as close as can be got, and I have said it to the point of tedium.

I italicised your error. What you are doing is asking for a justification for your belief, and following each suggestion with "But I am still not conv...

Indeed, as you were so forthcoming when asked if it is true that Paris is the capital of France.

While non impossible, it is, I submit, nonsensical to doubt that you have hands while you are engaged in typing. OR can you provide a sensible account...

Quite so. Truth is not one thing - indeed, it varies from case to case, as is demonstrated by the T-sentence. Special Relativity has a strong metaphor...

Why is up to us. We get to do what we like with things. The quest for meaning comes down to our decisions.

Some quotes to support the relativist line of thought in OC: 65. When language-games change, then there is a change in concepts, and with the concepts...

Indeed, to call for further proof when all others are convinced is at the least antisocial.

I was going to discuss this in messages with @"Sam26", to avoid the multiple distractions in this thread. But perhaps things have progressed to the po...

That graph is a wonderful demonstration of how societies become enthralled to their own myths. Nice work.

The infatuation with doubt exhibited by @"PossibleAaran" is perhaps a necessary step in the development of a more mature philosophical position. At an...

Notions of absolute truth were laid to rest at the start of last century, with Moore and Russell's criticism of Absolute Idealism. The world is too co...

Even perceiving the piece of paper is insufficient to convince some folk that it exists - they suggest brain vats and daemons and such. What you are c...

The trouble with my living in your future. It's half past eight tonight here, from your point of view. Get some sleep.

An agreeable attitude. Yes. Odd that this should take prominence.

Just as it was getting interesting...

example of contrary? I believe we ought be respectful of other beasties. But I am roasting a chook (chicken, for you foreigners) despite that.

Nice. Again we find agreement. Others tend to make things so damn complicated.

It's "your explanation of my behaviour".

Actually, it seems to me to be that folk reify belief; they think a report of belief must be a report about a thing. Folk assume that because Jack bel...

You are still looking for mental furniture, for something in Jack's head. If it is an explanation for Jacks behaviour, then it is his belief. Going to...

No - it's just pointing to a hand.

Any explanation would be meaningless to Jack. That does not make the explanation wrong.

Irony, lost. No offence meant. And what of just plain old truth? Perhaps talk of absolute truth lead philosophers astray, so that they threw out good ...

Good questions. We are more or less on the same page now, and your questions would be better answered by Sam. I've listed my own problems with his app...

Back to two dogmas. The fork is more like a spoon.

Well, no. If there is reason to think the speculation wild, there is reason to doubt it. Thankfully speculation about my coffee not existing was subse...

Seeing as how you are so fond of Popper, there's always his approach, a metaphor using a castle being built in a bog. We need drive the foundations do...

Sure. Good point. And for me this bring us to the main purpose of this particular thread, which was started by Sam proposing a theory about the nature...

X-)

I'm going to be pedantic again; I didn't say this, and for me it is important. I said that there is a way of understanding a rule that is not given by...