Janus

Don't we understand them only in terms of feelings or intuitions we have in respect of real things? A beautiful person, or landscape, a true friend or...

Cheers...

I thought I'd explained it pretty clearly; it makes perfect sense to me, but if others don't get it or agree that's fine too. It's by no means that im...

it is impossible to be certain of that. You need to up your reading skills it seems.

It's true that one could inadvertently know the truth without being certain of it; so all instances of knowing the truth are not necessarily being cer...

No, I'm not; that's just your fantasy. Are you certain of the kinds of things I've used as examples of what is commonly taken to be certainly true? Th...

You're haven't been saying anything relevant in the way of disagreement any way, so probably better that you don't feel you have anything left. We don...

Nothing you say there tells against the MMT principle that inflation will only result if supply of goods is not adequate to demand, even if extra mone...

"We can feel certain even when we are not" means, as I read it, we can feel certain even when we are not certain (i.e. cannot be certain). And this of...

It's probably not as simple as you want to paint it. See the post above yours.

One of the principles of MMT is that injecting more money into the system will only cause inflation if there are shortages of goods.

They may not be distinguished in sloppy common usage, but isn't that the point of sharpening usage: to clarify the underlying logic? "He was certain h...

It's a weird example, but I'll play along. If you are uncertain as to whether it is afternoon, then it seems to follow that you entertain some doubt, ...

But that's a ridiculous stipulation; you are a hundred percent sure it's afternoon (if it is). In any case if you are 99% sure of something (ignoring ...

You seem to be contradicting yourself; you've said your statements "capture what I meant" which I read as meaning they agree with what I meant, then y...

You can't be certain that God exists, because being certain is knowing and the things we can be said to know are things that are inter-subjectively co...

You just seem to be paraphrasing what I've already said. Do you agree that there is a valid distinction between feeling certain and being certain, or ...

Right, I get it; you're compelled to resort to expletives and ad hominems because you can't give a straight answer to the question I asked without mak...

You must disagree with some part of the above then. Which part?

It's not the only question there. Do you now admit that you were wrong, and that there is a valid distinction between being certain of something and f...

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No you complicated it to make it seem confused, when it isn't. You conveniently failed to answer my questions: in answer to this: You're looking disti...

You just seem to be trying, by tendentiously paraphrasing what I've said, and by making asides to others about my purported "confusion", to worm out o...

Being certain of something is knowing that it is true.

Feeling certain does not necessarily mean knowing the subject is true, as the example of feeling certain that God exists shows. Of course being certai...

OK, fair enough, I overlooked a comma, thus rendering the sentence open to ambiguous interpretation. It should be ' No, being certain means knowing th...

OK, that wasn't clear to me but :cool:

And?

No being certain means knowing that the subject is true.The subject being true and knowing that the subject is true are not the same. Your lazy readin...

We cannot be certain and wrong, but we can feel certain and be wrong. Of course if you are certain you also feel certain, but the converse does not fo...

I agree that obviously the dog does not conceptualize walls or doors in just the ways we do due to our linguistic capacities, but the dog sees the doo...

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But it would seem there must be something in nature which reliably leads to the perceptions of humans and animals being of the same things. My dog see...

I agree. I think the simple fact is that since the "evidence" that faith provides cannot be inter-subjectively corroborated, it ultimately reduces to ...

Yes, but what constitutes "good" evidence is also a matter of opinion. In fact I would hazard to say that I doubt that anyone considers something evid...

I think we experience space and time, extension and duration, and we also experience materiality, simply in being embodied, So, they all presuppose on...

As I read it, the meaning of the quoted passage is the opposite of what you are saying, though: it says that faith itself is the evidence of :things u...

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Do you know that, or merely believe it? Do you really believe it or is there some doubt?

:up: Right, salesmen don't invariably believe in their products.

Do you know that or do you merely believe it?

I wonder whether he really believed, or whether it just suited him to claim that he won.

Exactly you may choose without either believing or doubting it.

Cheers, yeah it's worked out well. I love living on the land, where my neighbours are hidden from view, and cannot imagine going back to living on a l...

All those are simply likelihoods. Sure you can say that we believe them to be likelihoods. All I'm advocating is that we call what is certain (in the ...

What seems most plausible, or likely to be fruitful, could be chosen, without any commitment to believing it is true; and that choice would not be "ra...

No, it is an interpretation of an historical evolution of ideas.

That's interesting; I don't know anything much about his life story, but I had formed the impression (not based on anything much I guess) that he was ...

Right, I don't deny that others find him philosophically interesting, and perhaps if I put the requisite effort in I might discover more there than I ...

But this only works in contexts, the empirical or the logical, where it is decidable just what being warranted or justified consists in, For me, philo...