I don't understand how x=x means "necessity of identity". What are you trying to say when you write x=x. or "necessity of identity"? What kind of iden...
That's strange. It was your claim that it is raining, not some state-of-affairs that it actually was raining. How do I know that you are right, when a...
Why? Words are things. If x is a variable, then x can be anything, including a word. I doesn't make a difference. If you don't know what x is, then ho...
Does identity exhaust what it is for the thing to be itself? Isn't an identity a label? A label is not the thing. Words are not the thing itself. Are ...
Thats why I proposed the rule that Banno hand over 50% of his dough. I thought we should start where the ancients did when the rules were meant to be ...
There is no such thing as a thing that has a relationship with itself. Things establish relationships with different things. Again I don't even unders...
If your answers were applicable to others, then they wouldn't be subjective. I thought you agreed that there isn't an objective morality? What makes y...
"Rules" is probably the wrong term to use. Any mathematics without real-world applications would be the game you're looking for. Knowing how many mile...
Well, what do you do so you can give half of the fruits of your labor to me? Math games with arbitrary rules are a useful waste of time. If you really...
I really don't get the reason why anyone would ever use that phrase, "An apple is an apple.", unless they're just playing words games, which isn't a c...
Songs and poems are examples of language games, or a play on words - meant to be vague so that it can generate arbitrary interpretations. In this sens...
This summarizes your problem: How do you guarantee that your claim is true? How do you show that your claim is true for it to qualify as using the ter...
Domesticated sheep? I was asking about species that developed naturally as a result of natural selection. Ironic how the only species you can point to...
Point out the study that shows individual organisms of these species establishing same sex relationships while abstaining completely from heterosexual...
Right. Since its subjective, the answers will be subjective. Search yourself, not this forum, for the answers to your political / ethical questions, a...
Darwin didn't dispose of the idea of two sexes, nor did he blur the line between species in general. His theory blurred the line between man and natur...
No, that's the way you used it in this thread. If we use the word "know" to imply more than just a justification for our belief, but also truth, then ...
There is no objective morality. What is right or wrong for you isn't necessarily the same for me. Any ethical standards we might agree on will be base...
Just as long as what we are clear on is that probabilities only exist in the system of your mind, not in the system of dice being rolled. Determinism ...
If knowledge requires that one's belief is true, but you don't have any guarantees (proof) that your knowledge it true, then how it is that one can cl...
So truth is a state-of-affairs where one's claims accurately represent some other state-of-affairs. Now you just need knowledge of this state-of-affai...
Irrational means that someone behaves in ways that are "random" - meaning you don't have a causal explanation as to why they are behaving a certain wa...
Many, if not most, people on this forum lack consistent credibility (including Baden and yourself) which has greatly diminished the impact of their ar...
I haven't read what he said about climate change. The climate changes for many reasons. There's nothing political about that. If the meaning of words ...
If science IS politically neutral, then it is those that perceived science as making a political statement when using some term, like "supremacy", tha...
I don't like the wording here. It doesn't make any sense to say that some state-of-affairs is a truth-maker, as if some state-of-affairs makes some ot...
Just to be clear, deterministic system A is one single die roll. The next die roll would be deterministic system B, and so on. Just because you know t...
Values are subjective, not objective. Opposing objective facts would be a contradiction. Opposing values are not a contradiction because they arent ab...
Your ignorance doesn't cause the dice to do anything. Your ignorance causes you to think of the world as probabilities and chances. The outcome is det...
I don't see anyone asking what "dog" or "house" means unless your an infant. I do see grown adults asking what "knowledge" and "god" is, so maybe ther...
It means that you can't tell the difference between rain and water hosed on the window until you go outside. So, you don't have proper justification t...
You didn't answer those questions I had in my post. There is such a thing as randomness and chance. They are ideas that stem from our ignorance. Like ...
Isn't it probable that you roll the dice six times and never get a 3? What does approximately mean? Doesn't it mean that it is possible that you are w...
Maybe we should rethink what we mean by "justifications"? A justification for one may not qualify as justification for others. What if looking out the...
And that could very well be the case in a solipsist's world. Who are you to judge what happens in my world being that you are just part of my world? T...
Contradictions aren't problems to solve. A contradiction is a solution to a question that is gives the answer, "This is not true". Contradictions info...
Contradiction. If people use the term in asking what it is, then doesn't that mean that there isn't a clear understanding of what it is? What is the r...
I was hoping you'd answer this: What is it that we are trying to accomplish when we say, "I know <something you "know">"? Then why does it feel like y...
Why would the characters in the dream world seem to have an intent if their own? Why wouldnt the solipsist's intent be the source of all the action wi...
Isn't that a fundamental philosophical problem - What is truth? If philosophy is questioning what truth and knowledge is, then it seems to me that the...
This is why we shouldn't be looking at how people use the terms to understand what "knowledge" is because how they use them can be ambiguous or not me...
This is all nonsense. The only alternatives are solipsism or realism. You seem to be arguing for the former. If you are conflating "world" with "mind"...
Why do they claim to know things that they don't? If they claim to understand what knowledge and knowing is, then how can they misuse the terms? What ...
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