Person on salvia with no left hand, "I can see my hand". Why should a minor thing like solipsism condition basic beliefs for the majority of people th...
I don't really buy it. If you're going to make any condition of use sufficient for basicality, if you change the use you change the criteria of basica...
This was my thought too. If covers need not have a finite subcover, then something like a pixellation couldn't exist for sets that fail to have finite...
Yes. A pixellation consists of a finite number of finite pixels arranged in some sort of grid that cover an object. So I took an object which has infi...
A pixellation of something is a map of it to a finite set of polygons that cover it (with properties on the polygons that represent colours) (and do n...
I should say that I agree that the argument isn't really about God's existence, it's breaking down a bunch of implications. Basic belief -> groundless...
(1) is rooted in basic belief only if there was a tree who is seeable by humans and we actually have the faculty to hear it. I believe the same logic ...
I find the argument plausible. (1) I see a tree. (2) I heard God speaking to me when I read the Bible. People exist that have sound mind and normal pe...
It really isn't. "Left liberal", "social democrat", "progressive liberal" are much better. Your run of the mill proponent of gender equality, racial e...
So we've got the ability to talk about natural numbers and addition, and identify expressions containing them with each other (like 1+2 = 3 = 2+1). Th...
The articles goes to pains to argue that it's not a justificatory relationship between a basic belief and something else which grounds it, it's someth...
I think the relationship of a state of affairs to composition of necessarily physical objects (for some account of physical) is an intuition you're br...
It was a gesture toward Frege. I also gave you gestures towards deflationism and correspondence in general, which in general are not (intended to anyw...
I meant that they had the same truth conditions. not that they were equal as strings or utterances. The "would" maybe behaves differently for past eve...
This isn't a particularly remarkable property. A friendship has no location in time or space. "Where is my friendship?" "Over there by the rug". A law...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwZU5Xwfk20 Shame about all those kids sexy dancing to this in schools in Iran. Remember to swipe right on Tindr if yo...
Why is it necessary to believe that a truth condition of a statement, considered as a state of affairs, is an eternal abstract object when all that it...
Why? "The Earth would orbit the sun even if there were no humans" is about the real Earth, the real sun and real humans. It's a stipulation, but it's ...
That's quite different from being able to say "There were dinosaurs before there were humans", which is true. Why do we need (if this is the point you...
I think that's about how it works. Though there are other features of it. If you successfully control what discourse is about, you can leave relevant ...
Maybe a good "natural experiment" on this is to look at attitudes towards climate change. It's A (1a) settled that anthropogenic climate change is rea...
Let * be * is equivalent to "if there is no human x that can express y, y is false" - the antecedent is true whenever there are no humans, so if * hol...
The algorithms already do that by themselves. There's just so much content available that it makes sense, in terms of generating revenue and keeping u...
Generalised skepticism is useful for misinformation. If you're extremely skeptical of everything, you come to believe what you believe through what yo...
I want to highlight the references in the linked post as being excellent. They give you a real sense for what concepts people were wrestling with at t...
I am pretty sure it would be false if the logic has excluded middle. (There is someone that believes that P) necessitates (P is true) is equivalent to...
If the existence of a verification procedure or justification for a statement was necessary for a statement's truth, "There are dinosaurs" would be fa...
Dog barks at kid and approaches, dog is all waggy and friendly. Kid is scared, kid's never been near a dog before. "Don't worry, they're just excited ...
This takes us outside the text. A common criticism (IIRC) is that virtue ethics provides no rules that engender moral behaviour. I quite like this; as...
There are a few bits in the paper that allude to the role moral psychology should play in a new conception of moral philosophy. (whatever the relative...
If you can't see the distinction between appealing to social norms to set out what "moral and immoral" means vs analysing social situations to re-eval...
It also might help, if you've not done so already, to have a very brief blurb before your epistemic theses on what you think an epistemology account s...
Unsure if you've talked about the distinction between reasons and causes so far. Reference to "for no reason" in the original paragraph is clearly int...
Mathematical structures involving operations; like arithmetic; usually contain many copies of expressions which evaluate to the same thing. In this re...
I read this list as. Summary: we can defeasibily evaluate what context a statement is made in and what this evaluated structure requires for the state...
The paper doesn't appeal to social norms to vouchsafe what is moral or immoral (it goes against this use of moral and immoral explicitly). The paper u...
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