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No it isn't. And again, no.
August 12, 2022 at 11:20
He does provide a definition of truth in The Semantic Conception of Truth:
August 12, 2022 at 11:17
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 ...
August 12, 2022 at 10:34
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...
August 12, 2022 at 10:17
Yes, because it explicitly says so.
August 12, 2022 at 10:10
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...
August 12, 2022 at 09:59
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...
August 12, 2022 at 09:38
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 ...
August 12, 2022 at 01:16
T(q) ? p is the same as “p” is true iff p which is the T-schema which you have previously said is the correct account of truth.
August 12, 2022 at 01:05
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I’d ban for the spelling.
August 11, 2022 at 20:54
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...
August 11, 2022 at 18:57
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...
August 11, 2022 at 18:50
Norms can apply to a single person, too. Even if I'm the only man alive I ought to endorse the irrationality of root 2.
August 11, 2022 at 18:46
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,...
August 11, 2022 at 18:44
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...
August 11, 2022 at 18:39
Someone coined the term "pi". He was quite capable of coining it without assistance.
August 11, 2022 at 18:36
I would say that pi is irrational even if I'm the last man alive and even if I believe otherwise.
August 11, 2022 at 18:31
They don't exist, but books about them do.
August 11, 2022 at 18:28
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....
August 11, 2022 at 18:24
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...
August 11, 2022 at 18:20
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...
August 11, 2022 at 18:14
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...
August 11, 2022 at 17:58
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...
August 11, 2022 at 17:50
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...
August 11, 2022 at 17:38
It doesn't imply what you're saying. You can't get from "only my mind exists" to "I cannot be wrong".
August 11, 2022 at 17:33
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...
August 11, 2022 at 17:04
We see N. I'm in my room, I see lots of things about it but I don't describe them.
August 11, 2022 at 16:55
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 ...
August 11, 2022 at 16:52
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...
August 11, 2022 at 16:29
Yes, but it doesn't boil down to "P". That's the point.
August 11, 2022 at 16:24
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...
August 11, 2022 at 16:23
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 ...
August 11, 2022 at 16:06
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...
August 11, 2022 at 16:02
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...
August 11, 2022 at 15:56
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...
August 11, 2022 at 15:46
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...
August 11, 2022 at 15:32
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...
August 11, 2022 at 13:46
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...
August 11, 2022 at 13:23
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...
August 11, 2022 at 09:59
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...
August 11, 2022 at 09:07
Of course they can. Why wouldn't they?
August 11, 2022 at 09:00
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...
August 11, 2022 at 08:21
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August 10, 2022 at 23:21
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...
August 10, 2022 at 21:53
You can be wrong about things other than your mind existing, e.g. God.
August 10, 2022 at 20:05
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August 10, 2022 at 19:42
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 ...
August 10, 2022 at 18:23
See here. It's as simple as I can make it.
August 10, 2022 at 18:08
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...
August 10, 2022 at 18:07
Of course they can. If scenario 1 is the case then God doesn't exist and so their claim that God exists is false.
August 10, 2022 at 17:58