Janus

If a ship is christened, the name is a kind of stipulation. That the ship henceforward becomes known by the name it was christened with (if it does) i...

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The dog does, however, enjoy the taste of the food; which is the foundation upon which recognizing that the food is tasty rests.

I do acknowledge the great difference between the dog's knowledge and my own; it's just that I understand them both as being founded on sensory experi...

You have it backwards . Knowing how and knowing that are forms of knowing by acquaintance; it is by familiarity with an activity that you come to know...

The dog knows the door is shut, he knows he can't go out so he whines a little because he knows that will get me to open the door for him. If I shut t...

My dog has no language and yet knows the door is shut, so this argument fails to convince. Knowledge by acquaintance is indeed foundational; without i...

You must also then have invented the private words "there", "is" and "a". But how would you know what they mean without translating them into the publ...

Yes, the same facts can be expressed in different languages. There are facts of conformation and characteristic that have been criteria for classifica...

Perhaps it depends on how you say it and what you mean when you say it. according to my experience if you love someone they will look beautiful to you...

Nice! Strangely that reminds me of a poem (faux haiku) I wrote about 20 years ago: Lonely at the heart the silent moon crying over the dark ranges I s...

That would indeed be ridiculous if the vaccine were only 10% effective. (Although I suppose it would still be a little better than nothing). Are you c...

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Of course it is people (not the public) who decides what is fact and what is not. But that means they decide what they take to be fact and what they d...

There are multiple words for other concepts: justice and fairness for example. In any sentence in English of the form "It is true that", "it is a fact...

You have it exactly backwards; it is the position of Olivier5 that carries the burden of not being able to account for being wrong.. I have said that ...

You haven't addressed the fact that when the innocent and the guilty persons are both dead no one knows the fact of the matter; which remain facts of ...

Do you have an idea of pain? Is it an idea of a bodily feeling or an idea of an expression such as "ouch"?

OK, from an intersubjective point of view it's a difference in kind of perspective because there are some "views" you can have which I never can and v...

It's a long way from knowing there is Antisemitism afoot to knowing that 6,000,000 Jews will be tortured and executed.

Yes, and I see the situation can be understood differently from a subjective or an inter-subjective point of view. Is there anything else of interest ...

If you think I missed something, you should be able to explain what it was you think I missed. Or was it something ineffable?

The PLA. So, the discussion has veered into the question of private experiences. I already agreed that no private language is possible (because to det...

That's true, and maybe that's because doubting situations always arise in the contexts of what can be intersubjectively corroborated (sorry Banno).

As I said to Banno, I can see the difference in the intersubjective context. But from my point of view it would make no more sense to doubt I was seei...

I know nothing of the pain in Sam's toe or the tree in his yard. If I went to his place I could, via the senses, directly confirm whether or not there...

I agree that my being in pain cannot be intersubjectively corroborated as my seeing a tree can be. From my own point of view though; I feel the pain, ...

I agree, what we take to be facts are always fallible. But the logic behind our understanding of factuality is not such that facts are fallible; it is...

Pain is different only in that it is internal to the body and so irretrievably hidden from the senses of others. As I said before the only different i...

Are you saying that you just have private sensations, but that you don't know you have them? I don't see the difference between feeling a pain in my f...

I don't see how the stipulation that in this story no one knows that the convict is innocent, is relevant, since the intention was to mirror actual ca...

Yea to that!

It seems syntactically well-formed but semantically ill-formed; to me at least. Is it contradictory? Perhaps according to the logic of ownership? Like...

That would seem to just be an example of the contingency of perspective. I can see the tree in my backyard now, but I can't show it to you. If you ask...

Is not feeling pain a kind of sensory experience? I'm finding it difficult to see a cogent difference in kind between "I feel a pain in my toe" and "I...

By the same argument when I look at the tree in my backyard, I don't know or believe there is a tree in my backyard, I see the tree in my backyard, I ...

I'm glad to hear you are feeling better. I felt like crap only for one day with the Astra Zeneca shot. I was given a two page document outlining sympt...

I'd say the electors could have had no idea what was coming at that time.

What was my original implication, according to you?

Can you cite some texts or studies that support that conclusion?

You need to read more carefully. Did I say that all boxers, or even most, end up with brain damage? What I suggested was that it is a risk that comes ...

I also have indicated, as has Banno, the other usage equating facts with actual (as opposed to imaginary or fictional) states of affairs or situations...

No, you know nothing about me, but I know something about you, assuming you're not a liar; you box without a head guard, and I know that is a very stu...

Making assumptions are one mark of an uncultivated mind; you know nothing about me or what sports I might participate in. My attempts at humour might ...

They would not be able to find it or enter it, let alone "blast it". But by all means go back to boxing without a headguard and give your brain the on...

It's bad form to criticize authors you haven't actually read.

This is said in bad faith. I can understand your definition of 'fact' and I've acknowledged it accords with one of the common usages, but not with the...

"They muddy the water to make it seem deep" Nietzsche To say of philosophy or poetry that it is deep might suggest work that is difficult to fathom or...

That might explain it.

Yes there is no guarantee that the stupid are capable of being anything other than stupid, but likewise there is no guarantee that they are not either...