FBI searched Trump’s home for classified material about nuclear weapons: report Jesus. Imagine they don't find them. What if Trump sold them to Saudi ...
And yet you said: And as I mentioned above, there's more to knowledge than just knowledge of what exists. In such a world I don't know the square root...
I don't see what difference it makes. In The Semantic Conception of Truth, Tarski offers this example: The sentence "snow is white" is true if, and on...
Then I don't know everything. And as I said to Pie, there's more to knowledge than just knowledge of what exists. In such a world I might not know the...
I think the quotes make it clear that what is true is a proposition. Whether or not a proposition is an utterance is open to debate which the rest of ...
I will die if I am warranted in believing that I will be decapitated. I will die if it is true that I will be decapitated. I think there's a clear dif...
As I've said before, there's a difference between saying that I can be wrong about something and saying that something other than my mind exists. From...
But leaving maths aside, even if the solipsist knows that only his mental phenomena exists he doesn't know what his mental phenomena will be tomorrow,...
I think that the truth of "God does not exist" is mind-independent. And I think that "God does not exist" is true. But I don't think that God's non-ex...
I have no idea what it means to say that a counterfactual scenario exists. I suppose that I could understand what it means for the future to exist (i....
And I'll add, knowledge isn't just knowledge of what does or doesn't exist, so even if it could be shown that the solipsist knows everything about wha...
The logic is the same, regardless of what X is. 1. John knows that his mental phenomena exist 2. Only John's mental phenomena exist 3. Therefore, John...
See the example with the coins. 1. John knows that 10 coins exist 2. Only 10 coins exist 3. Therefore, John knows of every coin that exists However, J...
p ? only my mind exists Bp ? I believe that p 1. Bp (premise) 2. ¬?p (premise) 3. Bp ? ?¬p (from 1 and 2) 3 is just what it means to possibly be wrong...
No. If only your mind exists then you know of everything that exists. But it doesn't follow that you know that no other stuff exists. Remember the exa...
It doesn't, and I explained why. I'll simplify the logic for you: Bp ? I believe p W ? I am wrong about p 1. Bp 2. ¬p ? W 3. ¬p ? ¬?W The conclusion d...
I believe that something other than my mind does not exist I am wrong if something other than my mind exists Therefore either something other than my ...
A realist would want to. There's the written sentence "the cat is on the mat" and then there is the cat on the mat, which is an animal sitting on some...
I don't need to be able to point to it for it to be the case, just as I don't need to say "the cat is on the mat" for the cat to be on the mat. Whethe...
I could just point to the cat on the mat and say that your statement is true because it corresponds to the thing I'm pointing at. Obviously I have to ...
See here but add in: I believe that something other than my mind does not exist I am wrong if something other than my mind exists Therefore either som...
I think it's just a matter of preference whether to call the true proposition "the cat is on the mat" the fact or the cat being on the mat the fact. Y...
p is a proposition. So what this says is that the proposition "the cat is on the mat" is true if it corresponds to some fact about the word, namely th...
I think a distinction needs to be made between these two claims: 1. "p" is true iff p 2. "'p' is true" means "p" The issue with the first is that it e...
Another example of the poor reasoning: 1. it is raining 2. it is not raining If I entertain 1 I will find that if I were to believe it true I would no...
This is your reasoning: I believe that God does not exist I am wrong if God exists Therefore either God exists or I cannot be wrong The conclusion doe...
The epistemological solipsist isn't assuming 1. It's the ontological solipsist that assumes 1. An epistemological solipsist can believe 2, and he's wr...
Your logic makes no sense. Consider, either one of these two scenarios is the case: 1. Only my mind and seven billion other minds and a material unive...
The solipsist doesn't know which of 1 and 2 is true. Your claim that if 1 is true then the solipsist knows that 1 is true is false. And that doesn't f...
I think I understand your misunderstanding. Let's say that a number of coins are hidden in a house. I search the house and find 10 coins. If there are...
Again, consider the two scenarios: 1. Only my mind exists 2. Only my mind and God exist God's (non-)existence is mind-independent. Whether or not God ...
They claim that if God exists then he is external to their mind, and they claim that God exists. If he does then they're right, if he doesn't then the...
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