Janus

This is the very important point where we disagree; I just don't believe this is true.

I think rapid decarbonization is a pipe dream; Vaclav Smil is very convincing on this. We could cut down on greenhouse gas emissions if we were all pr...

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I tend to think that ethical values are "no-brainers" given that we are dependent on the collective, and there is no rational justification for treati...

I think so, when it comes to ordinary judgements about what is directly observed. I mean, would you seriously question whether the judgement "snow is ...

If everything is theory-laden, then our judgements are fucked because we would find ourselves in an infinite regress of theory-ladenness. I accept tha...

You are taking the radical skepticism position I have already said I'm not concerned with. I'm not concerned with it because there are no known instan...

It doesn't need to be "the mind-independent material world" and cohering with "some specified set of sentences" is not enough; simply being in accorda...

To my way of thinking if I'm looking at plums in the icebox, I don't believe they are there, I see them there, I know they are there. And this has not...

It should be obvious I don't agree with that unargued bit of nonsense.

In logical contexts what is warranted is what is valid, In empirical contexts what is most directly warranted is what is observable. Then there is the...

I don't see that. for me, the words on the right of "iff" in '"Snow is white" is true iff snow is white' point to the grounding fact of snow being whi...

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I agree with you that Heidegger's idea of dasein, that it is always "mine", although that is of course a generality not a solipsism, points to the par...

If you are trusting the word of another then I would say you believe there are plums in the icebox, not that you know it. Of course it is all relative...

Well, no, I haven't moved back to anything; I've been saying the same thing all along and only repeating myself to clear up other's misreadings of wha...

That makes sense. although with the caveat that lying, not for personal gain or to protect the ego, but to protect the innocent (as, for instance, in ...

And I haven't said it would; in fact I have said that it wouldn't. I was talking about the significance of specific claims that cannot possibly be che...

How would you know what someone meant when they said "the cat is on the mat" if you did not associate those words with the cat being on the mat? How c...

I agree. Belief is one thing, actuality another; which means our beliefs can be wrong. My point is only that our being wrong is irrelevant if there is...

If you know there are plums in the icebox then you've seen them, and in telling me about them when the icebox is closed, you are remembering them bein...

But any truth has relevance or indeed substance only insofar as it could be seen to be true, or stipulated to be true in a fiction.

I'm not understanding what you're saying here; can you explain further?

I don't see what that has to do with it. What relevance would the cat on the mat be if no one sees it or imagines it? If no one saw or imagined a cat ...

No, the cat being on the mat is seen or imagined, and the words "the cat is on the mat" evoke (in a generic sense) that seeing or imagining. Doesn't w...

When I read a novel, for example, the events depicted, the landscapes, architecture and people described are pictured by me, and it becomes a world I ...

:That the cat is on the mat", sure, but not the cat being on the mat.The cat being on the mat is not a use of a sentence, but something we see or imag...

It consists simply in our association of the sentence "the cat is on the mat" with the cat being on the mat. We wouldn't be able to talk about anythin...

As I read it the T-schema exemplifies the idea that the sentence "snow is white" being true depends on snow being white. The logic here is that truth ...

I don't understand the correspondence to be anything more than an association we all make between what we say and what we experience. For me it create...

I think I am a deflationist about truth, as I see actuality and truth as the most basic elements of the propositional dimension of life. I don't view ...

The T-schema is a generality, and it applies to our talking and what we talk about; it formulates the logic of correspondence, which is the common and...

Or stands aside from, or outside of, the ineffable sensation and emotion. But it seems that "crystalline web of concepts just is the world that is the...

Right, I think per-linguistically things are more or less familiar to us as "affordances" of one kind or another. They already disclose themselves pri...

I would say that we all live differently in the one world. My world is not your world or anyone else's world but it is, like everyone else's world, pa...

I can see why you might see it as a project and equate it with "an individual vision anyway of the Better Thing to do, something of a meta-narrative" ...

Jane's belief might be wrong or it might be right. If Jane' s belief is right then it's not true that it might be wrong. If Jane's belief is wrong, th...

I see the core of ethics consisting in compassion, in fellow feeling and a practical sense of fairness and justice. Insofar as this is in the dimensio...

I think that because rationality and science rely on objectification, which is an abstraction from experience, a judgement of it, so to speak, they ca...

Why? To me all it entails or suggests is that for every actuality a true corresponding proposition can be formulated.

For me, philosophy is not concerned with establishing a meta-narrative, nor with establishing normatively correct rationality, but with getting the li...

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Almost everything you say there makes sense to me, so I am not sure if you were thinking it contradicts anything I had said. I thought I had already c...

Right, if "aliens exist" is true then "aliens exist" is not false, and it could not possibly be false without negating "aliens exist" being true. So. ...

But that's not different from what I'm saying. So, "aliens may or may not exist" is an epistemological, not an ontological, statement; ontologically s...

I thought the very basis of modal logic is that contingent truths, which cannot be false (obviously) could have been false (which means could be false...

If p is necessarily true it is not possible that p could have been false. If p is contingently true is it is not possible that p is false, but it is p...

I don't think you've answered the question.

I agree that any contingent p is not necessarily true. But what does "necessarily true" mean? Does it mean could not be false or could not have been f...

I think it is "could have been wrong" not "could be wrong" the latter is a contradiction.