Michael

And this is where I think you're making a mistake. The meaning of an expression is its aboutness. As you said before, "I know that there is an apple i...

I think it's more the case that "this is a bishop" is an institutional fact but that "this is wood" isn't.

This is an utterly pedantic and useless interpretation of the meaning of the word "consequence" in this context. Any normal person understands what is...

You’re confusing logical entailment with something like a 'performative' entailment. The phrase "the grass is green" doesn't logically entail the phra...

My answer is the same answer that you gave: the latter is about my state of mind, the former about the state of the world.

You answered this yourself: "The is about my state of mind, the about the state of the world." Are you now going back on that?

I don't know what you mean by "absolute truth". Statements are either true or false, and then either said to be true or said to be false.

Then we can understand "I know that the grass is green" as a combination of "I believe that the grass is green" (a statement about my state of mind) a...

I know. The point I am making is that the below are two different claims that you are conflating: 1. The statement has been evaluated as true 2. The s...

The defendant is claimed to be guilty, but it doesn't follow that the defendant is guilty. And the same with truth; we might claim that something is t...

That's a non sequitur. A jury can only judge a defendant to be guilty if the evidence suggests beyond reasonable doubt that he committed the crime, bu...

And also what is being said. Should a government official be allowed to publish state secrets? Should I be allowed to knowingly and falsely accuse som...

So it's OK for some social media company to remove your account should you violate whatever terms and services or community guidelines you implicitly ...

So if I'm at work and I express the opinion that Jewish and black people are inferior to white Christians and ought not be allowed to marry then it wo...

The difference is that gender is a psychological identity but being an elephant isn't.

I don't know what you mean by "must" here. I'm not saying that the word "knowledge" must mean this; I'm only saying that the word knowledge does mean ...

That's true of everything we say. I say "the grass is green" when I believe (with justification) that the grass is green. I say "the defendant is guil...

I've provided examples of how truth is a condition for knowledge: Almost every competent English speaker will agree with this. Our understanding of th...

And using this example; assume you start digging and break a gas pipe. You wouldn't say "I knew where all the gas pipes were, but I was wrong"; you wo...

I don't understand this at all. You claim that there is an apple in the bag. We open the bag to find an orange. It didn't stop being an apple when we ...

It doesn't stop being knowledge; it was never knowledge in the first place. Just because you claim to know the answer doesn't mean you do, regardless ...

If the first cell says that there is iron in the first sample of water but there isn't iron in the first sample of water then the data in the first ce...

Truth is also important. If John claims to know that the answer to the equation is 5 and Jane claims to know that the answer to the equation is 6 then...

Yes, it's explained on that website: The Z codes are "factors influencing health status and contact with health services." It covers such things as bl...

He's just completely misunderstanding the ICD. The Z codes are "factors influencing health status and contact with health services", not illnesses. Fo...

By "correct" do you mean "true"? Because then this very sentence accepts that there is such a thing as the truth which is independent of whatever we b...

Right, and heterosexuality is an illness because of https://icd.codes/icd10cm/Z7251 And having blood is an illness because of https://icd.codes/icd10c...

The problem is when you claim that because we use the phrase "I know where my keys are" when we have a strong belief then having a strong belief is al...

You're talking about grammatical correctness. I'm not sure what grammatical correctness has to do with truth. I agree that "I know where my keys are" ...

And I ask again, what do you mean by a word or phrase being correct? At first you said "'to be understood, to make sense", but a phrase can be underst...

People tend to want to know the truth. Correcting falsehoods is a normal thing that people do. But I don't understand the relevance of your question. ...

What do you mean by "wrong"? If by "wrong" you mean "false" then it's a truism that an asserted falsehood is wrong.

If there isn't a bus and you say "there's a bus" then what you say is false. Or by "wrong" did you mean something other than "false"? Perhaps "inappro...

I don't know what you mean by this. That the thing they're referring to isn't a bus.

But you just said "No, I mean 'correct' as in 'to be understood, to make sense'."

So "correct" doesn't mean "understandable" and doesn't mean "appropriate". So what does it mean?

I can understand you even if what you say is false, so this doesn't work either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_history There's nothing "postmodern" about it.

What do you mean by the right or correct use of the term? Do you mean appropriate? Because it can be appropriate to say something that is in fact fals...

Given that Gettier Problems were presented to show that the JTB definition of knowledge is insufficient, having to add a fourth condition to overcome ...

All prayers are delusional by their very nature.

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I don't know what you mean by this. Plenty of people choose to join the armed forces and get paid for it. Others choose to volunteer.

No. That's what I pay taxes for. Is this a gender-neutral use of "man"? Yes. I have no moral duty to put myself at risk of harm or to harm others.

The Catch-22 is that by the time they're an adult it's too late to take hormone blockers. And that's why it requires approval by qualified psychiatris...

Or that Barack and Michelle Obama are married. Or that Joe Biden is a man.

I linked to an article about a condition known as "XX male syndrome" and asked you if you would refer to a person with such a syndrome using "he" or "...

All the toilets at a nightclub I go to are unisex.

Yet you accepted that someone who is XX male is male and so clearly it's false to say that "in humans, XY is male, XX female". It may be that incident...

So it's one's physical appearance that determines whether or not one is a man or a woman (rather than one's genes)? You said that pronouns refer to se...