Janus

The Gang-gang is a kind of Australian cockatoo. Them dancin' cockatoos is amusin'—better than any fuckin' cat video in my book! I don't believe in any...

Right, it's always going to be more or less of an approximation, even in relation to knowing what I myself am thinking. I'm not one who believes in pe...

Cock or two.

Not with absolute certainty. As I have said already absolute certainty is possible only in relation to what is in from of you right now, and then only...

I wasn't referring only to myself. I have observed many times that people know what their partners or close friends will think about certain things. T...

For me 'absolute knowledge' refers to knowledge which is true independent of any and all contexts. I don't believe such knowledge is possible, so I am...

In my experience it is "super common".

From what you say it follows that we don't know that we know. If knowledge must be true and everything I think is true may not be, then I cannot be co...

Yes, I agree with you here—the most significant and dangerous example of that being religious fundamentalism.

Thanks for trying, but I'm not seeing any actual arguments to recommend your position, so I remain unconvinced. I think we agree that there is no abso...

But you do know that you just responded to my previous post, and that it's true that you did. What possible reason could you have to doubt that? It se...

What leads you to believe there is a "real you" over and above, beyond or apart from the you that you are familiar with?

If knowledge requires perfection, by which I take you to mean certainty, can I not be certain that I am presently sitting in my house at the computer ...

For me an empirical fact is something that can be directly observed. That said, I think we may be talking at cross-purposes. I agree that, in the sens...

Chet has flown the coop and the plastic stick has melted.

"Shrug"...if you say so...

I don't believe anything in the propositional sense is known in the kinds of altered states of consciousness people refer to as "enlightenment". But s...

I agree that it comes down to which should be thought the best way of talking about it, since there is no empirical fact of the matter to be found. I ...

Cool, that gave me a good laugh, and made a lot of sense to boot.

Yes. you're right. I don't frame it that way, but that is a possible way of framing it. I tend to think that with things we can see, like bicycles and...

One sees the bike, handles it...no need for belief. I have to go right now...will resume later.

I don't think belief is required. You see people riding bikes. You see the bike and grasp how it works. You want to learn to ride. You learn to ride. ...

That made me laugh!

We are fallible creatures. I agree we are not always mistaken. I think we do know some things, even many things. I agree that the common idea of objec...

I question whether all knowledge does require belief. I know how to ride a bike, plane a board, paint a picture, write a poem, play the piano and so o...

Yes, that's the way JTB is conceived. The problem is that we may not always know that what we (think we) know is true or be that clear about just how ...

That's an interesting counterpoint. Do you think there is a fact of the matter as to whether people are cowardly or courageous, honest or deceitful, a...

There is something to what you say, but I think you may be working with too broad a brush. Know-how involves skills that may not be dependent on knowi...

I do tend to think of what are generally considered to be the main virtues as desirable. I mean I find that I don't want to associate too closely with...

I think this is an important question. I don't think it helps us at all to think of ethics as transcendental. I don't think ethics is transcendental e...

I agree with his argument although as I already said in reply to @"fdrake" I don't think the discussion is really concerned with anything other than p...

All propositional knowledge requires belief in one sense, because when knowledge is put into propositional form it is thereby asserted as belief. On t...

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Right, but I wasn't putting all knowledge and belief in the same class but merely observing that what some might count as knowledge is actually merely...

I don't see how something which is acknowledged to be nothing more than a belief can be counted as a fact in the first place. The JTB definition of kn...

I haven't "backed off" at all. I've said there is a valid distinction between knowledge and belief. And I've allowed that some of what is generally co...

Done (Click on 'Done'). I have to go outside to do some work before the rain comes, but by all means get started on presenting your argument.

So you say. Is that something you know or something you merely believe? If the latter is the case, do you have a reasoned argument for your belief tha...

You seem very defensive. Capitalizations and implied insults so quickly delivered! An observation is not a claim, unless there is a reason to question...

I haven't made a claim, I've made an observation.

For someone who claims not to know anything, you certainly make a lot of very definite claims. Does performative contradiction not bother you?

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I haven't seen anyone struggling to get out nor being pushed back in; I think you are confabulating.

A very poorly considered diagnosis; some were never in the mire, and others never left it.

I don't think it matters how we conceive "i". We could say "if something thinks it must exist", and as I already said, "if something does anything at ...

I can't follow it set out formally like that. I think an equivalent of 'I think therefore I am' is 'If I am thinking, then I must exist". 'If I am not...

Do you think he can understand 'if a is the case then b must be the case'?

I don't know...his writing in English seems good enough for poor comprehension not to be a plausible explanation for his confusion. He doesn't seem to...

It seems he will try anything to avoid facing the fact he is mistaken. He is either not acting in good faith or he is more obtuse than I can imagine

No I wasn't citing anything, just applying ordinary logic. IF I must exist in order to think (or do anything else for that matter) then it follows tha...