Given that "I believe that the book is in my room, therefore the book is in my room" is invalid, "I believe that the book is in my room" doesn't mean ...
No it isn't. It's the only thing that's relevant. We're concenred with truth, not belief. Whether or not the book is actually in my room has nothing t...
So you're saying that if the book is possibly in my room then it isn't actually in my room, and so if I tell you that the book is possibly in my room ...
So what's the difference between "not actual" and "non-actual"? What's the difference between "not human" and "non-human"? That aside, either if somet...
Not it isn't. There's a difference between saying "possible" doesn't mean "actual" and saying "possible" means "not actual". You asserted the latter, ...
I suppose some is kept in the bank, some given as dividends to shareholders, and some invested into the stock market. None of this is really of any us...
When I say "the book is possibly in my room" I'm not saying "the book isn't actually in my room". Otherwise telling you where something might be is te...
From the SEP article on belief: Maybe we need to make a similar kind of distinction for knowledge; dispositional and occurrent knowledge. I've only be...
A recent example from my life: Jane: “Is this my pint or yours?” Michael: “Mine” Jane: “Are you sure? Pretty sure you’re drinking faster than me.” Mic...
So she believed that it was on the nightstand, but that belief wasn’t available to her? That just seems very farfetched. I think it far more sensible ...
I’m saying it’s strange to suggest that she knew that it was on the nightstand at a time that she didn’t believe that it was on the nightstand. “Jane ...
She didn’t know where it was before being reminded, and after being reminded she had certainty, so I’m not sure what the relevance of that argument is...
Why not? If "I'm not certain" means "I don't know" then "I know but I'm not certain" means "I know but I don't know" which is, of course, a contradict...
Well, yes, that's exactly what I'm trying to do. What does "but I'm not certain" actually mean? It might be that when we tease this out we are confron...
That might be begging the question. They were right, but does it then follow that they knew? It might have simply been a successful guess. "Oh, I know...
I tried with Trading212 using practice money. Lost more than I won. Decided to then do the opposite of what I wanted to do. Lost more than I won. It's...
The cynic in me thinks that this is all one big con. Short the pound, announce idiotic economic policy, profit (already done), go long on the pound, a...
I'm aware that I haven't presented an argument as such. I'm just looking at a potential line of enquiry that may lead us somewhere interesting (or may...
That's from Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. Toohey: Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No on...
Like, I don't know, a General Election? And with something like alternative vote or proportional representation? Labour have recently committed to the...
And before anyone decides to talk about "taxation is theft": Fine. It's theft. And it's a very simple trolley problem; either steal from the rich or l...
It's always about helping the rich stay rich (or get richer) at the expense of everything else. The lie of trickle-down economics. People are going to...
Well, if one were to take a Wittgensteinian approach to language then surely the use of the assertion "I know that p but I am not certain" has somethi...
I understand that, but my point is that if one can know that p but not be certain then it should be acceptable to say "I know that p but I am not cert...
So how do we make sense of "I know that p but I'm not certain"? If we take knowledge to be justified true belief then surely it is one/some/all of the...
To risk resurrecting our previous discussion, can we have knowledge but not have maximal confidence? "I know that p but I am not certain" could be see...
Speaking or signing or writing. Perhaps "linguistic expression" is the more inclusive term. So the question is whether or not a proposition (or if we ...
If a proposition is a sentence then the conclusions are: 1. if it is raining then some x is a sentence, and 2. if no x is a sentence then it is not ra...
Maybe I don't need it but I thought it would be simpler to use it. Maybe I misunderstood what it meant. I thought it would be enough to say "some x be...
I'm not sure of the proper procedure for specifying definitions, but I did have these two (unnumbered) lines are the start: T(q) ? q is a true proposi...
I did say that "maybe it's simpler to just understand T(q) as 'q is a true proposition'." So that gives us: T(q) ? q is a true proposition P(q) ? q is...
Line 3 is ?xT(x) ? ?xP(x). That some x is true semantically entails that some x is a proposition, given that truth is predicated of (and only of) prop...
I think you need to look at the context of that reply. It stems from this post: When I say something like "snow is white" is true iff snow reflects al...
I have since edited it to ?xT(x) and ?xP(x) as I believe that's the correct application of existential introduction? And the point is the conclusions ...
I think the below should avoid the need for that. T(q) ? q is true P(q) ? q is a proposition 1. T(q) ? p 2. T(q) ? ?xT(x) 3. ?xT(x) ? ?xP(x) 4. p ? ?x...
My thoughts are real. My thoughts are not mind-independent. Therefore some things which are real are not mind-independent. Therefore “real” doesn’t me...
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