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What you described through your examples is a dialogue, a collaboration between reason and observations to arrive at some (temporary) conclusion. And ...

You can’t make sense of anything without a little priming of the conceptual pump. We are born with an innate natural logic that allows us to think abo...

Indeed.

My reasons are that empirical observation springs from reason, is framed by reason, and comes back to reason when analysed. So when blended with a fai...

Historically, English-speaking philosophers have borrowed heavily from Latin, Greek, Arabic, German and French writers. And that’s a fact. Vice versa,...

As has been pointed out already, Luther was rabidly antisemitic and his teaching is probably one of the factors that ultimately led to the Holocaust. ...

I find the idea of an ‘English language philosophy’ amusing, as if philosophical ideas were chauvinistic, or unfit for translation.

Does it help reduce cleaning cost?

Well if all they wanted to say is that hotels with an infinite number of rooms cannot exist outside of our imagination, I could have spared them the e...

Maybe discussions on the internet are failing because people want them to fail.

Mmmmmokay..... <:mask:

Whoever Craig and Mooreland are, they might wish to take a college-level course in mathematics. There’s no paradox that I can see here, only a metapho...

I don't know how it will pan out for the UK, but 1) my money has been on a no deal Brexit from day one, on account of the blatant incompetence and bad...

Maybe I was overly dramatic. Some concepts are easier to fathom than others. They can be pointed at, envisaged from different angles, apprehended to s...

And then the master: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D67lR7Qy_wk

An interesting cover of Go Down Moses: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K2mNK6qtRT0 Armstrong, I'm not black - Armstrong, je ne suis pas noir For my skin...

It explains the existence of meaning and its elusiveness. Also the tension between what we mean (our intent) and what we say (our use). We cannot effe...

It was cluttering the post with useless points.

Not everything that matters can be expressed with words; some experiences are hard to convey through that sort of code we call a language. E.g. a pain...

I love dictionaries, and I like to compare different definitions from different dictionaries. No need to reinvent the wheel, it’s already been written...

So what?

For me to go through this rather tedious charade, i would first need to figure out that you are trying to teach me some new game, which I don’t know h...

You can teach something to a kid, a dog or anyone else without being explicit about it. But you can’t do that with tic tac toe. Too complex. You can a...

Nope. Edit: other than the pure logical contradiction, or semiotic maybe: « to learn » means « to learn something new ». Like if you already know that...

What’s the incentive to learn something if you believe you already know it?

You do.

I think there’s more than correlation: there is causation. And it goes both ways, as required by the law of action-reaction.

The mind is evidently physical to a degree: it can be in pain, for instance, which often indicates a physical issue somewhere in the body, and it can ...

If thoughts are epiphenomena, then the thought that thoughts are epiphenomena is itself an epiphenomenon, therefore it means nothing, and therefore it...

This will never happen, because "in language there are only differences". Concepts don't mean anything in and by themselves. Instead, they draw their ...

Wittgenstein was dull. His ideas are always half-cooked. You should study actual linguists instead, like Saussure. He would help you understand that c...

Not really. It can be recognisable yet undefinable. That is to say: I know a chair when I see one; so if you show me an elephant and tell me it's a ch...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwb6u1Jo1Mc Come closer, listen to me little boy I will tell you the story of the human being In the beginning there w...

Thanks. Hard to find a good poet nowadays.

I’ve read Spinoza’s ethics as well and enjoyed its brilliance, though I don’t buy the idea that there’s no such thing as human agency. But IF you buy ...

So will you, apparently. You don’t seem quite certain about what you mean by ‘formal’ and ‘informal’ knowledge. I suppose you mean ‘absolutely certain...

Do you care explaining what you see as the formal and informal senses of the verb « to know »? For me it has one meaning only. I do. I understand you’...

Nouvelle Vague - In A Manner Of Speaking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXhLFb34nz4 In a manner of speaking I just want to say That I could never for...

Okkervil River - The War Criminal Rises and Speaks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EMLbKNcKww The heart wants to feel. The heart wants to hold. The h...

Good for you. The topic of the thread being ‘how do you know?’, you might wish to explain ‘how’, or in your own terms ‘how is it even possible to know...

Ok so you’re at least certain of one thing.

I thought maybe you are guessing that you are guessing. Possible?

Are you even absolutely certain that you are guessing?

These are equivalences, not inferences. They are just a different way to say the same thing. To say « P » or to say « P is true » is to say the same t...

Li is defined as « Li is not true » which is equivalent to « not Li is true », itself equivalent to « not Li ». Ergo you defined Li as equal to not Li...

No, I am saying: you are starting from an obvious contradiction. Li = not Li. It’s like basing arithmetics on 1=2...

Thanks for Puff the Magic Dragon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo759np9-nM

If P is true, then the proposition ‘P is not true’ is NOT true. If P = NotP (the liar sentence) then you go into a contradiction, because you postulat...

If P is true, then the proposition ‘P is not true’ is NOT true.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZpNgSaYWts To die for ideas, the idea is excellent Me, I almost died for not having it For all those who had it, over...