Michael

"Justified" just doesn't mean "certain".

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/justified 1. Having, done for, or marked by a good or legitimate reason. A belief is justified if there a...

You're equivocating. His belief was incorrect, but given the evidence was reasonable. A reasonable belief is a justified belief. A belief doesn't have...

I'm not saying that the man was right to have sex with the girl. I'm saying that the man was justified in believing that she was 16, given the evidenc...

Heh. I stopped reading after I found a paragraph to reply to.

Unless @"Banno" asks it, in which case it inexplicably reaches 100 pages.

"if", not "if and only if". ;)

Surely it's a truism that the most active posters have the most posts?

The motive is always to ensure quality.

Already happened with Doug Jones winning in Alabama (R+14, Trump+28) and Conor Lamb winning in Pennsylvania's 18th (R+11, Trump+20).

Then "compelling" might not be the right word. But my point stands with the example of you being accused of having sex with someone underage. It would...

It doesn't matter that I know that they're forgeries. Whether or not your belief is justified depends on whether or not the evidence available to you ...

I'm not. I believe that your belief is justified and I believe that your belief is false. So I believe that your belief is both justified and false.

Sure I can. If Sarah shows you her ID then your belief that her name is Sarah is justified. However, being that she's my sister and that she's showing...

It's conclusive evidence even though it might be a forgery?

So, like BlueBanana, you're saying that a belief is only justified if it's certain? Then I'll repost what I said to him: If I meet someone and she tel...

FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, fired by Jeff Sessions, was leading probe into Sessions And then McCabe fired for lack of candor.

Yeah. Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica: The data firm's global influence: And here the whistleblower talks about how CA tested the idea of a "...

Yeah, he recently said that he hated the "drain the swamp" slogan when it was first suggested to him, but after being persuaded to use it and it being...

I don't know what that is.

Hanover knew exactly what he was doing when he brought up the topic. Such a joker.

A conclusion is justified if there's evidence for it. There's evidence for it; therefore, it's justified.

There's evidence that they committed the crime but no evidence that they were framed. However, they're a friend of yours and you don't believe that th...

It was quite an ironic threat: "You are a clinical psychopath. I will murder you. Don't expect that you will be alive in the future."

Banned him a year ago for threatening to kill me.

You've only been here a month. He was banned a long time ago. Unless you're a banned member who's returned under a new name? :chin:

He's beyond understanding.

Agustino is a smashed potato. :lol:

Here's him addressing me (and others): Some members of ‘the philosophy forum’ are stupid….

This is moses' Twitter: https://twitter.com/mosesquine88

Where's moses88?

Perhaps someone has been framed for a crime, and so although the belief that they committed the crime is justified, I don't believe that they're guilt...

Why would you want to see that? And is seeing that really worth the political consequences of the firing? If you're being honest, then I think this is...

Testing moron Edit: not added to moderation queue.

I think admins/mods are excluded from the filter.

What can I say? doesn't have the largest vocabulary.

We recently had a lot of comments with people calling each other morons. It doesn't really have anything to do with words being offensive which is why...

"Moron" was the only word, and only added recently. But that's removed now, so you don't have to worry about it.

We have a trigger word list that automatically sends comments to the moderation queue if they contain certain words. Yours was picked up for "moronic"...

I'm 18-40.

So if I meet someone and she tells me that her name is Sarah then I'm not well justified in believing that her name is Sarah because it isn't certain ...

This is ambiguous. By "laws of physics" do you mean "the way nature behaves" or "the way we believe nature behaves"? If the former than it's a truism ...

So a belief is only well justified if it's certain?

Ah, it's because "moron" has been added to a trigger word list, and your comment contained "oxymoron".

No. Don't know why that happened. Will ask jamalrob.

Are you saying that a belief is only justified if it's certain?

So NYC chowder.

Have you watched the film "Hall Pass"? A guy in that talks about this sex thing called "fake chowder".

Yep, you're right. I was hasty in copy-pasting my reply from the previous debate proposal.

You can seek to clarify the position(s) to be discussed, but to actually start debating it (informally) is off-topic really, and best suited for one o...