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Yes, people may act badly because they did not know better. The question merely is "Could we have done anything differently if we could somehow rewind...

How do I know that I know? I guess my doubt reaches the Munchausen trilemma.

That assumes that lie detectors are infallible.

Yes we may be influenced by external factors, but at the end of the day it's our own active choice. It’s your choice to be influenced by your environm...

But even that would be ultimately pointless, since existence itself is pointless.

Even if objective meaning existed, it would be pointless since we already had it. No matter how I look at it, I can only see one answer: All values ar...

Don't be silly and go off-topic now.

You're so sensitive. If I say "objective truth", does that make you happier? What I'm saying is, we don't know for sure if objective truth exists or n...

The truth is what we make it. We cannot verify if truth exists or not, what we perceive as truth is just our strong opinion.

Yes, I was. I was speaking merely conceptually about the nature of truth, not about the truth itself. Certainty ultimately boils down to assumptions.

Randomness and free will are different things. Freely willed actions are consciously chosen, so in theory you could choose the same every single time ...

Those situations aren't absolutely identical down to atom level since they are different days, and on different days you have different levels of expe...

What I'm saying is that given the same circumstances, a computer would always make the same choice. Free will is the idea that given an absolutely ide...

Argue against or for free will all you want, but don't question my definitions. I'm just trying to make him understand what we're talking about. And n...

Your idea that your starting point is unquestionable is, in itself, an assumption.

How do you know what constitutes certainty?

Determinism is an assumption as well. Likewise the assumption that death is the permanent end for a soul, or that consciousness ceases to exist upon b...

Free will is the idea that we have multiple options to choose from regarding the outcome of a particular situation. Thus, free will implies that freel...

In order to analyse truth you have to start somewhere. That starting point is inherently uncertain.

The free will debate is masturbation so people can feel security by believing their actions are beyond their control, freeing them from moral responsi...

It's not religion. It's philosophy.

Things are genuinely created in the universe. The universe itself was created. It didn't "just happen".

Are all bachelors unmarried? Could there be a married bachelor? Can you be absolutely sure, without appealing to logic?

Law of identity. A=A. Lol.

Even if we happen to have mapped down an objective truth, we cannot be sure that we have actually mapped it down.

What we mean by "objective truth" depends on context. Objectively, objective truth is that which is true regardless of what we believe or want the tru...

I firmly believe we possess free will. Determinism and randomness are our explanations of events, but only because they can be understood logically. T...

We can't know anything for certain. We make reasonable guesses based on our experiences and then we act on that. We can't have complete certainty abou...

Yourself. Does it matter if I go crazy in the next minute? Does it matter if I die in the next second? Does any fate we go through matter in the grand...

Why does it matter if you die? You won't be here to have any feelings about it.

From my point of view, the only thing one can be absolutely sure of is that the present exists. What that present constitutes, however, is a matter of...

You just asserted an objective truth, implying that we can indeed be objective. Your assertion of the lack of objectivity is thus limited in scope.

He's making a reference to logic. He's trying to show that logic can generate objectively true statements.

I think this whole discussion centers around one point: You have to assume something in order to claim knowledge of anything. Otherwise the very conce...

""Everything is subjective" is an objective statement as it is being asserted to be true for everyone." is in my opinion the best argument in favor of...

To clarify what I'm saying: You have to assume you're being objective in the first place, in order to be able to claim certainty about anything.

In order for someone to state something as an objective truth and for that statement to be accepted you have to assume that the person has an objectiv...

The funny thing is, any assertions we make are assertions of objectivity. So if we say we are subjective beings, then we're making an objective truth ...

Yes, if they're derived from a subjective framework but objectively true. That doesn't mean they're certain, though.

I see. The idea that we cannot objectively assert anything about reality assumes that we have access to objective truth. If we cannot be objective, th...

Such an argument could be the regress argument or the problem of the criterion.

But then your last answer is nullified since you assert that we can objectively assert something to be undeniably true.

The most extreme skeptics would argue that objectivity is even in principle impossible. But I guess that's another discussion and not relevant for hum...

It sounds to me like you're implying that we cannot ever be guaranteed to be 100% correct about anything we claim to know (fallibilism). Is that right...

But how do we know that mathematics is 100% accurate? How can we show that some of our mathematical deductions weren't skewed by human error or emotio...

Starting point for reasoning. Personally I believe that we can aspire for objectivity when understanding reality, but never actually reach it.

That suggests to me that there is no objective knowledge. Objective knowledge requires an objective framework (or reference point).

If a sick person perceives themselves as being sick, and they survive by eating and drinking, isn't there some fundamental objectivity at play? We in ...

Exactly. And you just said that objectivity is possible; namely, that it can be objectively known that the world exists.

Objective truth can only be objectively perceived. This is what throws me off, sort of. This leads me to think that there is a fundamental starting po...