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That's not going to work out. I can define all the logical constants in terms of disjunction and negation. It feels like we're wandering around here. ...

That would make them the same proposition. "Called 'true'"? So you still don't accept that the conclusion is true? There might be if you persist in th...

What kind of answer are you expecting here? Because it looks like you are asking, in so many words, for a theory of truth.

Well, yes and no. He doesn't make the inference because his belief that (f) is justified, but Gettier claims that inference preserves what justificati...

And if (f) were true, so would (g), (h), and (i) be. It's rather the point that Smith thinks he is applying modus ponens but he isn't, because (f) is ...

I still have no idea what this is supposed to mean or what point you think you've made. In what way is Case II dissolved?

You're forgetting that we are treated to a buffet of reasons for Smith to believe that p.

It's worth looking at the scope of "know": (1) I know that: p or q is true. (2) I know that: p is true or q is true. (3) I know that p is true or I kn...

Does Smith also know that p v q would be true if q is, even though he has no opinion on the truth or falsehood of q?

Only that the brain is a pretty complex chemical environment. Who knows what the body might do when experiencing that degree of trauma. And then once ...

This I don't see. Death is the most extreme trauma one's body can suffer. What you have are reports of living people who experienced this extreme trau...

I would expect some way of weighting the reports by the circumstances of the witnessing. At a baseball game, 30,000 fans might think the runner was cl...

It's worth mentioning that you can believe and assert "p v q" when you believe one of them is true but you don't know which one.

I just don't want to say that Superman exists one way in fiction and another way outside it. The fiction exists in our world. Superman doesn't, not ev...

Such as?

It just looks to me like you don't accept any of Gettier's premises, including the use of classical logic to analyse natural language. Is there common...

Yes, absolutely. But this is confusing for everyone. If your point is that this is not an explanation of existence -- the ineffable there-ness of stuf...

That's a linguistics question. In some cases, exclusive or is more natural, and in some cases inclusive. There are reasons classical logic settled on ...

I get that. But I wanted to clarify your views on the logical constants and standard inference rules. And, as it turns out, you have a non-standard vi...

Leave out knowledge and belief for a moment. If I am justified in asserting p, am I justified in asserting p v q?

It's a hypothetical. He asks us to assume that Smith forms this belief. Your argument is that he doesn't, or can't, or shouldn't. What's not clear is ...

Gettier's argument is this: (1) If you are justified in believing p, then you are justified in believing p v q. (2) You can have a justified true beli...

Agreed, but we seem to have drifted into the issue of what natural language disjunctions are. There are old arguments about their interpretation.

Part of what's going on here is that we construct untold numbers of sentences and utter them in untold numbers of circumstances, all using a finite nu...

But I can arrive at disjunction based on those percentages.

I can believe all three to some degree: Boston: 10% Barcelona: 20% Brest-Litovsk: 70% and I can believe 100% that he's in one of those three. But I ca...

Sure you can. Anyone who said that I'm at home or at work or driving from one to the other would almost always be right. (I lead an exciting life.)

If you want to describe Smith's belief as "Jones will get the job", then what do you do if it turns out that, unbeknownst to him, Smith's name is actu...

If you mean as this as a matter of psychology, then yeah, people have inconsistent beliefs. But they shouldn't. "Years of Academy training wasted!"

That makes tons of sense. Thanks, apo!

Thanks for the reference. I suppose I'm not in any hurry to get to metaphysics -- there are domains I'm actually interested in. Right, and this is whe...

Sorry -- what was this again? But to know this is to know something about the domain, isn't it? To have some idea of the mechanisms at work. How else ...

I think Sam was saying that talk of existence is really talk of whether a concept is instantiated. I don't see how saying that a concept isn't instant...

But there's still some feedback in more popular mods (songs, movies, etc) becoming more well known and more often selected. How do we represent that e...

I'm still trying to understand the connection between unchecked growth and power-law distributions, when my youngest comes up and tells me the Minecra...

And in both of Gettier's original cases he is explicit that his mark sees the entailment and makes the deduction, precisely because you can't assume t...

And the argument can always be retooled so that Smith fits whatever description you deem to safely refer only to Jones.

Not quite. Gettier is explicit: Your argument has been made before -- maybe by Donnellan, I forget. It's that there are two different sorts of definit...

Even the Wikipedia's article is staggering in the number and range of examples.

So for instance when mass communication was limited to a small number of broadcast media, TV, local radio, local newspapers, then you expect a Gaussia...

Yes, that's where I'm headed. (BTW, I'm reading Life's Ratchet now on your recommendation. Good stuff.)

This particular game was just a jumping off point, and I don't expect to draw any conclusions from it. This is interesting:

I wondered about this, but my guess was what mattered was the percentage. 25% is clearly enough, but my guess is that a much smaller percentage of the...

Yet another thought: I'm torn between the idea that cooperation might not be emergent and needs to be a first-class goal alongside competition, and th...

One more thought: the idea of science as a self-correcting enterprise amounts to a claim that in this case competition IS cooperation. This is what I ...

Lots of good points here, and thanks to @"Galuchat" for the research summary. As I tried to emphasize, what really jumped out at me was how the choice...

I've tried a few different ways of going on from here, but I just don't have it in me right now. One thing that's a little haywire about this whole co...

Well I guess it depends on how you mean "always recognize". My understanding of Dummett is that he takes assertion to drag along with it some idea of ...

No. There may be a simple misunderstanding here: that's not a quote from Michael Dummett. It's a summary of a position he argued for off & on in vario...

That's helpful. And we do this even if we don't expect to get "yes" or "no", but closer to "yes" or closer to "no", right? "AP"?