suspending one's judgment and deciding beforehand that any evidence to the contrary of it will be met with a response of 'that can't be true' are not ...
nb: it's fine to feel like smthn's wrong, but i just ask u don't pretend to do philosophy on that pretense, what u feel is irrelevant, so leave it out...
it's on-topic in that yr. deflecting criticism of a position u hold by falling back on false claims abt. yr. own open-mindedness. u've already obstruc...
there is always room for debate in philosophy, because one can always say 'nuh uh' or pull a new distinction out of thin air. u have no criteria for w...
but u just said the opposite? a hurdle that u set the standards for, and so will never abandon. the fitch argument is super duper simple, it's hard to...
why do philosophy if you've decided a priori that whatever prejudices you currently have are sufficient to refute any argument? i mean i don't think t...
also i should note that in general a bad rhetorical move is: *asserts implausible opinon * 'ah but here's a bad consequence of that' 'yeah but you did...
yr. post was regarding yr. own opinions & that was what i was responding to. 'I am far form alone in feeling...' and in the previous: '...I don't find...
what you feel is simply not relevant. the conclusion that knowers are collectively omniscient, i.e. that there are no truths that aren't known. i thin...
there's no persuasion to be done, it's a proof. so you must either disagree with the premises or find some flaw in the logic. i don't care what the ex...
sounds plausible, but controversial opinions about such matters aren't relevant to the point. just imagine any situation where you can't know somethin...
if that is the question (i don't think it is: i think michael is interested in tools to prop up anti-realism, & is essentially debating verificationis...
truth conditions have nothing to do with representation or 'viewpoints.' they have to do with whether sentences are true, i.e. whether certain things ...
say gold is god's favorite metal, but we could never figure that out. then someone says, 'gold is god's favorite metal!' maybe they were guessing, or ...
it doesn't matter what people use to teach others. if they just teach by demonstrating, in learning how to use the term they will have learned how to ...
in other words michael the above argument has seemed to reduce to yr. doubling down on 6) and 4), respectively, & this doubling down in the face of my...
i just want to know whether this is 'actually' a thread abt. verificationism, as it seems to be. note that verificationism abt. truth results in the p...
or if you like just say those temperatures are possible & gold actually melts, but for whatever reason, doesn't matter, they can't figure this out. no...
replace the scenario with any sort of fact abt. gold they aren't in a position to discover, it doesn't matter, their utterances abt. gold are still t/...
so you think that in such a scenario, gold would have no melting pt., just because no one can show that it has a certain melting pt.? this seems reall...
confuses knowing how w/ knowing that, cf. above here's a practical ability one has: to refer to a metal with a melting pt. of 1948 f, but this is the ...
Michael, the argument conflates "knowing how" and "knowing that." that we know how to use a word doesn't mean that we know everything about its use. -...
Yes, but you do so by recognizing, for example, when it's raining. "It's raining" is correctly used to speak a truth when it's raining. That's it. You...
it's raining to be that you say it truly when it's raining, not that you say it when you recognize some thing other than it raining. you might use it ...
The use of it's raining has to do with whether or not it's raining – one uses it roughly to correctly describe a situation in which water falls from t...
Then there's a fork, and a lot of ambiguity. Early on, it might be reasonable to say that they all start saying false things w/o realizing it (and ind...
I'm not sure I follow. If the people grow up using the language in the simulation, then indeed the use of their language will result in its truth cond...
This, if taken seriously, is tautological: swapping in the definitions for each other, we get: "language use has nothing to do with things that have n...
What is a recognition-transcendent thing? What is a recognition-transcendent condition? Is a recognition-transcendent condition a recognition-transcen...
I'm not quite sure what's being said, but it seems wrong. The idea that the use of words has nothing to do with the world is ridiculous on its face. W...
As I understand it, on the standard set-theoretic construction of the integers, it's both. The cardinality of a set is n just in case the set is equiv...
The Unitarian Church is an older entity than the UU Church. The latter has no commitment either to the existence or non-existence of a deity or deitie...
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