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He explicitly considers the possibility of inductive arguments in favor of that, though, and then rejects them as being circular, which suggests that ...

To those who find it is obvious, sure. To those who don't, what then? There is if you want to change the mind of someone who doesn't already believe t...

:up: :100: "Magic" isn't just the unexplained, it's the fundamentally unexplainable. To deny something because it would be magic is to deny that anyth...

"It's obvious" is not an argument, and you do need an argument if you want to convince anyone who doesn't agree with you to change their minds. No, I'...

Sure, I never disputed that. IF induction works, which you would have us believe on the grounds that “it aways has worked”, which would only be reason...

It operates ON that network of beliefs, or any other network of beliefs formed in any other way; it doesn’t at all depend on the network of beliefs be...

His point is that its negation is exactly like that as well, so you can't help but waste your time on either one or the other.

So you think that nobody holds any categorical beliefs like that, even defeasibly, such that they could find out that such beliefs were wrong when the...

My panpsychism isn’t at all motivated by quantum theory, but it does touch on it. Basically, I think that “everything has consciousness” only in the s...

I love the way you've phrased this. The things that we are most familiar with, ourselves, are conscious. We're generous enough to at least extend that...

That was my point that I thought you were disagreeing with. If I misunderstood you, then no further comment.

Okay, didn't see anything contrary in there. That's all basically what I thought about strong and weak emergence already. The point stands that if the...

If some updated physics could handle new, apparently strongly emergent properties, it would have to be by adding something to the fundamental constitu...

I have addressed everything put forth. Me being of note or not is of no relevance. And just because other have come after and disagreed with Popper do...

A weakly emergent property will also emerge from a simulation of the underlying system. Simulate particles in of a gas just mechanically and you simul...

Something from nothing, for no reason?

I wish I could say it was amusing to watch someone selectively read and willfully misinterpret so as to score cheap internet points instead of having ...

If by consciousness you mean some kind of metaphysical quality that human brains have that is totally irreducible to any aggregate of qualities that t...

Obligatory note to differentiate between strong and weak emergence, here. Weak emergence is uncontroversial. Strong emergence is tantamount to magic.

So she is not at all open to the possibility that it could be wrong, if she should see something that would show it wrong? She believes that dogmatica...

I addressed exactly that difference in the last paragraph of the OP: So sure if you're just trying to make tea, not test a hypothesis, then roll with ...

It does not, and I have repeatedly said as much. It just doesn't rely on induction for the task of differentiating between competing beliefs. Inductio...

To people who already agree, sure. But what of those who disagree, like Hume does on induction? Just let their arguments go unaddressed, instead of re...

If you mean that there can be no reason to think one way or the other about induction, then I pretty much said exactly that at the end of the previous...

There is some scholarly disagreement about what exactly Hume's point was, but the widely-held interpretation is that it means that unless the problem ...

So we can know that induction works (that we can extrapolate patterns into the future) because it always has before, so we can extrapolate that patter...

If the laws of nature had just changed such that swans could now change color willy-nilly, or even if they had always been such that that was possible...

:up: :100: That is easily accounted for by recognizing that the kind of “consciousness” that is everywhere (phenomenal consciousness, the subject of t...

I agree that music has primarily emotional meaning, though I don’t know that that needs to be limited to religious contexts. I see analogues of musica...

You’re the only one bringing up any belief about being able to predict the future perfectly. That’s not anything I’m talking about at all. I’m saying ...

So you were not surprised by the apparently purple swan, and it was consistent with your prior beliefs? Then you have no contradictory observations to...

Other way around: you change the beliefs which initially lead you to construe your experience as genuinely seeing a real purple swan, if you instead c...

Yeah I really don’t get the objection to SLX’s comments now that the election is over. We did the necessary evil of voting for the lesser evil, now we...

In this case it seems somewhat plausible that it was precisely the election of Obama that triggered the backlash that lead to Trump. His election spur...

Yes, which means that induction is a perfectly fine way of coming up with beliefs. There's nothing wrong with using induction to get to something or a...

I never said inductive thought generally was to be dispensed with entirely. I've repeatedly said induction is a fine way to come up with beliefs in th...

And the fact that about half the voters voted for him anyway is a commensurate condemnation of the state of American culture.

:up: :100: (Of course, the right seems to increasingly realize the obviousness of this, and are now openly attacking democracy as “mob rule” in opposi...

Most of my generation have barely any hope of ever paying off a home. Two generations ago a man my age who wasn’t well on his way to that goal would h...

America today is not better for most people than America 40 years ago. Stainism or Maoism is not the only alternative to what we’re doing now.

As opposed to the massive social experiment that’s been failing all over the western world for the past four decades, and threatening to take the enti...

Too bad one of those things has to spoil the great civilization that the other three together would make.

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Mostly just wanted to give you a :up: in return, but one thing: Only given certain background assumptions which theory-laden that observation, which a...

I don’t recall any supporters’ names being taught, and my search on SEP suggests that it’s merely a traditional view: Etc.

I already clarified that verificationism and confirmationism don’t mean the same thing here.

Apparently, since there's a whole name for that methodology and it was taught as one of the several views discussed in my university philosophy of sci...

Because it's not incorrect, it's just a different sense of the word "confirmationism" than you're using. Hypothetico-deductivist confirmationism is ju...

Yeah I already addressed all of that in my last post, so if you're not going to read the whole thing, maybe just don't bother responding to it. I'll j...

I won't have time to read both of those in their entirety tonight, but just reading the opening of the Lewis paper, he also says: Which seems to be th...