I haven't said it is a cataclysmic event, but it could well be thought of as one if it becomes established as a seasonal virus with both an infection ...
I can't see why it is fraught. All I meant by anything having "further existence" is existence beyond merely human experience or perception of the thi...
OK, so I had said that I think basic beliefs (in order to count as basic) must be pre-linguistically formed and may or may not be articulated. You see...
It is obviously reasonable to think that such perceptions exist because their existence is inter-subjectively corroborated in the sense that everyone ...
Properly basic beliefs can be given linguistic form, but they cannot be dependent on language use. The difficulty then is to explain how the jump is m...
Justifications for beliefs or for what one thinks (about what one perceives, for example) are only relevant in an inter-subjective context. Such justi...
Perceptions of beauty, belief in values, perceptions of oases, mirages and rainbows, the ideas of one's own and others' minds all obviously exist, as ...
What does this mean? Of course it is different than anything humanity has previously been through; if only because what humanity has previously been t...
:up: The above statement: is it a belief, a judgement, a guess, an assessment, a stipulation or something else? Whatever you may call it, is it subjec...
Epistemological justifications require inter-subjective corroboration. The existence of a tree can easily be so corroborated. Can the existence of God...
Perhaps...hopefully...but I have no doubt humans have been through cataclysmic events in the past, and also no doubt that once life became more or les...
I'm not pessimistic about humanity's survival. I think human beings will be around (in vastly diminished numbers) for as long as the planet remains hu...
Right, and also the assumption that we will ever have the energy resources and technological means to send anyone, much less significant numbers of pe...
That has not been established; estimates currently range between .7% and 3 %. The mortality rate outside China has been, so far, much lower than China...
Are your "guesses, suppositions, estimates and the like" unshakeable? Is your attitude against the idea of belief unshakeable? Or are you merely "payi...
Catch 22. Shutting of borders will lead to economic depression if not collapse, shortages of not just cheap consumer items that might be thought to be...
The different locution is only to emphasize that we are not warranted in assuming the naive realist view that there are real things, absent us, that a...
No, I would say that actualities abound absent the human. It would take a human or equivalent to say what any actuality is, though. So, in a sense 'th...
Right and all we're talking about here is the inherent logic in the human understanding of truth. I say that the primary feature of that logic is the ...
I wasn't suggesting there were no dinosaurs prior to the advent of humanity. There being dinosaurs would be an actuality, not a truth (in a context wh...
Nothing you've said provides any reason why we should think there cannot be a-historical, as well as historical, truths or facts. I was only referring...
You haven't responded to the point which was the lack of substantive semantic distinction between the two common phrases. If you think there is such a...
Is there any such thing as a future truth? "It is true that..." and "It is a fact that..." seem to be semantically equivalent. They are grammatically ...
If some event or purported event is not apprehensible to our senses then it may or my not be a fact; we could never know for sure, even if we think we...
No, never. Annoyed by it, by the rapid escalation of entropy and the hassles that entails, perhaps. If I were to feel ashamed by it, I think the respo...
I think the hurt, the shame, comes with a feeling of unworthiness, of not counting, even of worthlessness. This feeling does not seem to be the same a...
To be ominbenevolent would be to wish no harm or suffering on any being. To be omnipotent and omniscient would be to be able to create a world whose b...
You could say the notion is quasi-spiritual; but the salient point is that only the purely rational is (in principle at least) free of prejudice or bi...
My point was more that space could have been layered, and that our so-called a priori intuitions are based on prior experience. In other words, they w...
I agree. Not sure what you are driving at here. There are two issues in what you say in the post the above is quoted from First, there is your stateme...
Apologies if my wording is not clear to you. The name for the "other attitude" is 'acknowledgement that my belief could be wrong if it happens not to ...
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