I have a computer print a random word (using radioactive decay measurements) on a piece of paper but have the paper and computer burned before it can ...
It's possible that something has happened that we can never discover. This could either be a practical matter – someone was murdered and there's no ev...
According to the JTB definition, we know that a given proposition is true if it is true, if we believe that it is true, and if we are justified in bel...
What do you mean here by "establish"? In one sense it means "discover" and in another it means "make happen". If we take it raining for example, physi...
Justification is how we judge truth, but truth itself is the facts obtaining, regardless of justification. If we imagine a court of law, someone is gu...
Because that's how any reasonable English speaker would interpret it. What else could you mean by drawing a distinction between John's belief about th...
This is what you've said before: Here you admit to there being an "actual weather", but claim that we don't have direct access to it. Here you aren't ...
People use the phrase “you’re wrong” when they disagree with the other person. Given that I disagree with you my use was felicitous, and as there’s no...
Then consider what you meant by the cat being on the mat being belief-independent in that context. That is how a true belief is distinguished from a f...
The above is why I don't believe that you believe what you're trying to argue; you're inconsistent. How am I to interpret the above if we follow your ...
How the world seems and how the world is aren't the same. I've spent weeks trying to explain this to you. There is a fact of the matter, independent o...
Yes it does, and any reasonable person understands this. Frankly, your position is untenable and you're just being stubborn. I'm tired of it. I honest...
Or he's guessing, or he's lying. You don't know what's going on inside his head, only what he says. Yet you understand the meaning of his assertion, w...
Beliefs have propositional content. I understand what the "it's raining" part of "I believe that it's raining" means and I understand what the "it's s...
No, when people say things like "it's raining" they mean that it's raining. We've gone over this so many times. I can say "it's raining" even if I bel...
If you ask English-speakers which of these count as knowledge, almost all will say only the first. 1. John knows that it is raining if the weather is ...
And the T in JTB is saying that the weather must be as you believe it to be. If it isn't as you believe it to be then your belief is false and you don...
The understanding I'm looking for is the common sense realist understanding. There is more to the world than our beliefs. The facts do not depend on u...
When I asked this: You responded with: So you do understand what it means for the belief-independent facts to be as we believe them to be? So how is i...
It doesn't in the context of the JTB theory of knowledge. The "true" in "justified true belief" is to be understood as the facts being as they are bel...
Do you understand what it means for the belief-independent facts to be as we believe them to be? Do you understand what it means for the belief-indepe...
So you accept the following: 1. There are belief-independent facts 2. If these facts are as we believe them to be then our beliefs are true, otherwise...
We’ve talked before about access to facts. You’ve drawn a distinction between beliefs and the actual weather. And now you’re trying to say that truth ...
I'll add; the reason we say that someone has knowledge when we believe that their claim is true is because we understand that being true is a requirem...
We also say that someone's claims are true when we believe that their claims are true. But as you (sometimes) admit, our beliefs can be wrong. Believi...
They use the expression "I know X" when they believe that X is true, but as you (sometimes) admit, sometimes our beliefs are wrong. If their belief is...
A belief can be true even if it isn't certain. The money I have in my bag can be real money even if I'm not certain that it's real money. You've repea...
What do you mean by not knowing at the time whether an experience is veridical or not? Your entire argument is that to know is to believe. Iff I belie...
No, that's the first scenario. When there isn't a cat he isn't talking about an actual cat. But in the second scenario where there is a cat he is talk...
Also, I wasn't (yet) talking about the phrase "the cat is black." I was just talking about pointing to a cat (with one's finger). Are you saying that ...
No, it was about an actual cat. But what do you mean by "an actual cat" when you say "'the cat is black' isn't about an actual cat"? The post I linked...
If a person is hallucinating a cat and points to where they see a cat then they’re not pointing to a real cat, but will (wrongly) claim that they are....
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