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Ok. Can it be known? Have a look at Sam's answer. it's not just pain that cannot be doubted. Can you coherently doubt that you are reading this, and t...

If you like. "relationship" would not be my choice, for the reasons given. "Object of thought" is loaded. "Content" might be preferred. But also, what...

Trouble is, saying you know you have a pain is problematic. How do you justify such a claim? The only justification seem to be that you are in pain - ...

"relationship" has a particular baggage - f(a,b) is a relationship. But the proposition isn't related to the knowledge, so much as part of it's conten...

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Yep.

Pretty much. I use that idea. Others might picture a logical space in which all possible worlds are listed, and think instead of selecting those world...

, , oh, and the continuation of my previous post is that fixing the name - with an original baptism or whatever - is a very different sort of thing to...

Good stuff. If I've understood, there is an answer to your puzzle. In a formal system, there is a difference between the syntax - S4, S5 and so on - a...

Are you familiar with Charmer's argument, mentioned above? Good reply to So in a way, the question for those of us with a Wittgenstienian bent is, can...

Good post. Yep. I know of two viable responses. The first is from Austin, and looks at how we use the word "real", noting that we contrast it with som...

Sort of. We might say Homer is the guy we think wrote the Odyssey. But turns out it was Kostas who wrote it. Now at stake is the difference between th...

Are you familiar with the idea of a family resemblance? How much success would you have if you set out to define your family by listing their attribut...

Kaplan is the go-to for this sort of stuff. That "I" designates me is not a property belonging to me. It's a grammatical function of the use of "I". I...

To sincerely say "I know that P" is to assert that P, while it would be exceeding odd to assert that P while claiming not to know the P. That's been t...

You just did.

Yep. And yet, from the examples given, it seems that even when we saw off the branch, the reference succeeds. And the quest becomes, how can this be? ...

, , q,v.

Thank you. It's curious that I don't think Kripke would disagree with what you have to say - and if he did, I'd be disagreeing with him! He's not - at...

We've been over this previously, and it's a bit of a side issue, but I don't agree with your theory that words are all proper names, that all they do ...

In the formalisation, there are letters - "a", "b" and so on - that stand for individuals in possible worlds. The standard interpretation is that each...

Potential energy is creative accounting for physicist. They invented it in order not to falsify the principle of the conservation of energy. :wink: Yo...

I found that a bit hard to follow, but it looks to be a galant attempt at elucidation and analysis. The justified true belief account comes from Socra...

:grin: Meta is in worse shape, thanks to you.

I think I agree, but I'm not sure what the conclusion was.

Yep. This is also good. Wittgenstein pointed out that we do not know we have a pain, we just have a pain - and here he is using "know" as justified tr...

Pretty much. Working out what is true and what isn't, is an activity, something we do. We look around, we do the calculation. ...not so much... "cogni...

No more than By ignoring knowhow you are protecting your ideas from critique, rather than willingly exposing them to analysis. As I said, that's a sha...

Your explanations might not be as convincing as you suppose. Let's go back to that first paragraph: The hypothesis is that thirty years have passed, w...

Dude, learn to use a calendar. I think you are enthralled with a pretty thought. It's not such a good one on reflection. If you go to sleep and thirty...

Time didn't cease while you slept - it passed. Thirty years of it, demonstrably.

I'm not seeing it. Perhaps it's not as clear as you think. Is your claim that time does not pass when you sleep? No, becasue other folk are awake. So ...

The sun sets and rises, the stars turn, the frost settles in - You see the changes when you wake. You do not have direct experience of other folk's co...

OK. That looks hopelessly confused. Time passes when you sleep. Time passed since the Cretaceous period. But I get the impression that you are inured ...

Yep. Very much so. Knowledge is embedded in what we do, in ways well beyond the place of information.

That, without consciousness, we would not be aware of time passing, is a very different thing to time being brought about by consciousness. There seem...

Thanks for the clear response, Ludwig No, that's right, this is the circularity I mentioned. It's an extensional context if substitution works. Being ...

I'm not too keen on talk of essences, either. Whatever they are, they are peripheral to the issue of what is real and what isn't. We have three or fou...

Sure. The point made is that in order to be said to know something, it's not usually enough to have the information; one also should be able to act on...

If you had someone who could set out, to whatever degree of detail you like, what is involved in riding a bike, and yet fell off every time they tried...

Yep. Not an uncommon move. Is it justified? Is there a difference in kind here? You know that there is water in the tap. You can show that you know th...

Was it @"counterpunch", 4 years ago, who had a thing about this? I might have the wrong bloke.

Yep. Notice that reference remains intact despite the failure of each description. Hence reference is not achieved by using descriptions, nor by essen...

It's a poor example that Kripke chose, and a somewhat difficult idea to get across, but the point Kripke makes is at least in part quite right, if mis...

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If I've understood, knows things he doesn't believe, while knows things that are not true. And neither account can explain what it is to know how to r...

I didn't actually respond to your post. It's not just Kripke, and it's about substitution. In set theory, the Axiom of Extensionality is \forall A \, ...

What can be said is a start. What can be shown might be more important. That's part of what is problematic about mysticism. If it is showing stuff rat...

Good to know. Sure. I still haven't responded to the points you made in your previous. Will do so later. Perhaps. But at the very least philosophical ...

I'm sorry for the agitation. I hope I can show you that there is no need for such disquiet, and at the same time take us back to the theme of this thr...