Michael

Is there "right" and "wrong" criteria? Maybe one person is a scientist and says that the criteria for being water is its chemical composition, and so ...

Then perhaps if we use a simpler example of an inanimate object. In another possible world the Taj Mahal was built using different materials, or at a ...

What makes it the case that one thing in one possible world and one thing in another possible world are the same thing? Let’s say that I’m the eldest ...

I see you and raise with I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration. A soft coup? As much as I disagree with Trump, the idea of staff...

So are jumpsuits.

Throw oranges. They'll never know.

There's a difference between "I say that X is true because I believe that X is true" and "X is true because I believe that X is true". And there's a d...

There's also no observable difference between what's true and what's false at any given moment, but we don't then say that something is true just beca...

It doesn't follow from this that we should talk about "wrong knowledge" rather than "not knowledge". I would say that if I think I know that your name...

It’s not always going to be the case. Sometimes the things I think I know are true, and so I really do know them. And why “acknowledge that some knowl...

In such a case you didn’t actually have knowledge; you just mistakenly thought you did.

As an international criminal mastermind it pays for me to know the law.

Wouldn’t make sense. The whole point of pardons is to make it so that you have no criminal history. What you’re thinking of is commutation.

Perhaps a better example would be something like "he's pissed". Are we talking about someone being drunk or angry?

You probably don't, but that has nothing to do with Janus' claim.

Does it make sense for there to be two indistinguishable worlds where in one the cat is on the mat and in the other it isn't? @"Janus", as I understan...

Why? I am guilty iff a jury declares me guilty. My name is Michael iff my birth certificate or deed poll states my name to be Michael. I'm sure you kn...

He's saying that a statement is true iff it can be verified as true (and presumably false iff it can be verified as false). I think he did: "a proposi...

It's never possible to know that "p is an unknown truth" is true because to know that you must know that p is an unknown truth, which is a contradicti...

But that's not what he said. He said that a statement is true iff it is verifiable, which isn't the same as saying that it is true iff it is verified,...

I think @"Metaphysician Undercover" is saying that propositions don't exist sans interpretation. The ink on the paper exists independently, the rain e...

There's Fitch's paradox of knowability. If the proposition p is an unknown truth then either the proposition "p is an unknown truth" is an unknowable ...

These aren't mutually exclusive, hence Janus' response. Perhaps you meant to say that propositions can be true and yet unknowable?

That doesn't seem right. I can interpret the meaning of the statement "there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe" without being able to veri...

So the categorical imperative demands that we return the ring?

Is it unethical of me to not pay to fix a mistake another person made? If it costs me then it's charity, and charity is a choice, not an ethical oblig...

Was Cohen pretending to be a war vet or something in the Palin interview? I wonder if perhaps McCain was brought up and they decided it best not to ai...

Learning Centre > Questions?

Rudy Giuliani does not exist It’s finally become philosophical.

Yeah, click on the star on each discussion Edit: although looks like it doesn't show on mobile. That's inconvenient.

Is it easier to get to them if you add them to your bookmarks?

We want higher quality discussions/posts on the main page. It's a philosophy forum first and foremost, not a chat room.

Here. Discussions from the Lounge no longer show on the front page. You have to click through to the Lounge category to see them.

I feel the same way, even though I know I’m guilty of letting my own quality drop. Part of the problem for us mods is that we’re quite often accused o...

I haven’t been reading much lately. I regularly check the reported posts lists though, so if you see anything low quality please do flag them.

They'll be deleted. If someone wants to post off-topic/low quality posts then they can click on the lounge category option.

So we'll have 4 pinned notices and 2 pretty much identical feedback discussions taking up the front page.

Losing all posts and user accounts.

Same. I've been focusing too much on politics and current affairs and not enough on philosophy.

I voted for "Other" as perhaps Feedback should also be removed.

Technically you could remove the poll, save it, then add it back in again.

I voted to keep it as it currently is, but as I said in the other discussion it would be best if any off topic categories are excluded.

I think part of the problem is that posts from the Lounge can dominate the front page, which is why I’ve changed my default front page to exclude them...

The jury has four questions, and here are the judge's proposed answers: The last one made me laugh.

It is what it is.

If it's out there then it's not here. So it's false here?

5 years, but yeah.

Here's a ruling by Ellis in a bribery case: You might be on to something. Although that was a plea deal.

Yes, sorry, I was just reflecting on the sorry state of affairs in US law. Those same judges will punish drug possession harshly.

And yet possessing drugs for personal use gets you years in prison.