Michael

As if. Gone are the days when politicians resign because of impropriety, and I don't trust the rest to kick him out.

Knowledge is being defined as justified true belief, not just as justified belief.

If one can infer B from A and if B entails C then one can infer C from A. Take the example of the bartender given the fake ID. His belief that the ID ...

And in the Gettier case they are 18. They bought the fake ID when they were 17 and haven't yet replaced it with a real one. So I have a justified true...

We can be justified in believing things even if our belief or its evidence is false. If I’m a bartender and someone shows me a fake ID that I believe ...

You should read Philosophical Investigations.

The standard, common sense understanding. If a calculator tells me that the answer to 123 × 123 = 15,129 then I am justified in believing that 123 × 1...

According to what you mean by "justified". But that's not the meaning of "justified" as used by those who argue(d) that knowledge is justified true be...

You're working from a very different understanding of justification, then. One contrary to proponents of the justified true belief account of knowledg...

I use a calculator and it tells me that the square root of 2 is 1.41421356237.

But false beliefs can be justified, too. Again, that's why knowledge is commonly defined as justified true belief, not just justified belief.

You said it was justified. And as above, a false belief can be justified.

Why isn't he right? You have a justified true belief but you don't have knowledge.

What you didn't know is that the calculator you used is broken and always gives an answer of 15,129, regardless of the equation you enter. You believe...

Let's say that you put 123 × 123 into a calculator and it tells you that the answer is 15,129. Are you justified in believing that 123 × 123 = 15,129?

A false belief can be justified. That's why the JTB definition of knowledge is JTB, not just JB. Not having put out milk last full moon doesn't justif...

Not sure what you're trying to say here. Are you saying that the farmer's belief isn't justified?

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If one can infer B from A and if B entails C then one can infer C from A. If the cowishly shaped cloth is a cow then there is a cow in my field, there...

I would say that, sometimes, one has to be pragmatic rather than principled. Maybe lockdowns and the like do deprive people of their rights. But they’...

https://jref.com/threads/rest-in-peace-mars-man.58490/

If I have 0 slices of cake you can’t take one from me. Negative numbers are a lie.

I dunno, the concept of zero is pretty suspect. What’s the difference between 0 slices of pie and 0 slices of cake? Cake isn’t pie, so there must be s...

Can you have less than 1 slice? What’s 1 slice divided by 2? 2 slices.

Although apparently there's a thing called implicit multiplication that has a higher priority then explicit multiplication and division, e.g. 2(3) has...

So ÷ and / mean slightly different things?

I would say: 6/2(2+1) = 6/2(3) = 6÷2×3 Solving left-to-right, 6÷2×3 = 3×3 = 9

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I hate to be bound by convention, so locked. :cool:

The anniversary of the founding of the Kingdom of Hungary?

I read that as "interdimensional" and immediately thought of the Council of Ricks.

Click on “Categories”, click on the category you want to remove, scroll to the bottom and click the eye symbol. It’ll cross out and be removed from yo...

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I shall be participating this time, so apologies in advance for winning.

Don’t worry, 500 is 5,000 or less.

5,000 or less, and it doesn’t have to be a Christmas story.

How about change rule 9 to “whichever story receives the second most votes wins.”?

I sometimes wonder what society would be like if the no regulation, no tax, no government crowd got what they want. Probably some dystopia controlled ...

If the past is infinite then the present is the end of an infinite period of time, but an infinite period of time has no end.

An infinite past of sequential events is illogical, though. If we imagine each second of the universe as a person counting then the present is that pe...

Asking for the cause of the universe is asking why inflation happened or why there was an initial singularity of infinite density and temperature at a...

If anyone other than the government acted like the government, handcuffed people and locked them in a cell, they’d be rightfully called a criminal. Th...

That it doesn’t require two deities for it to be possible that there are both people who kill for fun and people who save drowning children.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_fluctuation

Because so many people are unreasonable. Or because they’re don’t believe in Yahweh but some other God. Then why only consider one religion’s God? Do ...

Following on from this, assume that some deity exists. What does it take for that deity to be Yahweh as opposed to some other deity like Allah or Angr...

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I honestly don't understand what you're getting at here. I just want to know who – or what – @"Shawn" is referring to when he asks if logic or science...

I don't know what you mean by this.