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You have probably seen it, but I just have to post this again... http://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/candyland1.jpg

:D

SO in all that time we were talking about how bishops can only move diagonally, you missed the bit that said within the game of chess. No wonder you w...

Perhaps it would help if I set out what I think is going on. There's this word, "know", that is used like other words, confidently and productively by...

Did Sam say that? I'm pretty sure I did not. I think Sam and I said that there are propositions that are taken as certain within a given language game...

No, Apo; I'm not playing. You win.

It seems to me that language use involves a world that includes a community of some sort for the language to be used by; but a self - that's potential...

Why?

If we look to use rather than meaning, then since use involves the world, then a statement's being true involves the world.

That's just not what I have been saying. Bah. I guess I was a bit tired and grumpy last night, and my back has the gip; perhaps we can reach some basi...

Actually, I thought the thread was going quite well. Sam has a way of keeping things on the path that I admire. That notion of the absolute bother me ...

There's a tendency on my part to skip over posts I agree with; sometimes it is worth coming back to acknowledge excellence. RockThrush, this is as nea...

Replacing my comments with things like: is hardly a mark of good will.

What do you think? How do you want to make use of the word “know”?

Once or twice. If you did not recognise the Principle of Relativity, then that's not my problem. If you are going to reduce what has been said here to...

Well, no. That's just a bit of a side issue you have added to suit yourself - as if the choice were between doubting everything or doubting nothing.

Nothing.

"If...", as the Spartans replied to the Macedonians. Yes, I agree that in such circumstances Jack knows very little. But I don't see that this is prob...

Procrastination is a powerful motivator.

@"Sam26", For my part, I'm happy to agree that there are some propositions that are certain within a given situation; you call these hinge proposition...

Cheers. I suspect I would call such things certainties because of the absence of the possibility of doubt.

What the tortoise said to Achilles. What do you each make of this?

You can call it "Fred" for all I care. What counts is that in order to get on with life we take some things as given.

Such revolutions might be interesting and grab our attention, but they do so because they are extraordinary. Should you base your understanding of kno...

Justification, then. The justified true belief notion comes from Theaetetus, of course. Two things are well worth understanding about that dialogue. T...

Mmmm. darjeeling first flush.

"I"?

Coffee?

When you wake up, do you decide not to die? I hope not. But I have met people who do.

No growth; nothing was learned.

Setting up a dummy account. That's a paddling.

Then you are an intellectual coward who refuses to clarify his views or respond to his interlocutors. Not a teacher, not a student; no more then a pre...

You know, it occurs to me that I would be proud of a thread such as this, with no content and a few hundred replies.

Answer the question.

Answer the question.

Weak responses of your type above, have already been approached on prior pages.

Hey, play nice. You have the attention of a half-dozen intelligent and articulate folk. Answer the question.

I think we broke it.

Answer the question.

Answer the question.

Answer the question(s)

Bastard.

Just give my beer back.

I don't detect the significance of your comment above, wrt the OP.

It didn't hurt me none. Give it a try. Answer the question:

Hold my beer...

You're a bot.

Just for an example, I would quite happily say that there is a chair in front of me. I would also say that I believe there is a chair in front of me. ...

Well, that was fun.

Solve, or dissolve... The point is that there need be nothing that ties you to who you once were.