Sure, but according to the metaphysical realist the truth is independent of any kind of falsification or verification, and so even if something like b...
Yeah, we would experience fabricated evidence that either brains in a vat are possible or aren’t. The point is that we can’t know whether or not what ...
These are the logically possible scenarios: 1. We are not brains in a vat and the evidence suggests that brains in a vat are physically possible 2. We...
If we are brains in a vat then us being a brain in a vat isn't a physical impossibility, even if our fabricated world suggests otherwise. To use the w...
That seems to be what our study of human biology shows. Much like with the case of phantom limb syndrome, the human brain is able to make it seem as i...
Exactly. I am a brain in a vat iff “I am a brain in a vat” is true (Tarski’s T-schema). “I am a brain in a vat” is only true if such a sentence refers...
I don't see a problem with it. I think experience happens in the brain, albeit usually as a response from stimulation by signals sent from the rest of...
Much like with Tarski's theory of truth, to make sense of this we need a meta language and an object language. The meta language is the language of th...
I certainly think it’s logically possible, and so if semantic externalism entails that it isn’t logically possible then semantic externalism is false....
I was being overly simplistic. It’s not just vision that’s being fabricated but all the senses. You don’t really seem to be addressing the actual hypo...
Sure, in that case he can refer to light and shapes and colours just as we can. But he can’t refer to trees and brains or truthfully claim that the th...
Not necessarily. You’ve been arguing that we might be brains in a vat despite the fact that we’re not aware that we are. Even awake, the brain and/or ...
Sure. The point is that its experiences are elicited artificially by a computer directly manipulating the sense organs. It never sees a tree or a brai...
It’s a real tree given what “real tree” means in my language. The point still stands that if semantic externalism is true then none of the words in th...
If you prefer, consider instead a body in a vat. It’s the same principle. This person never sees trees, only “hallucinations”, but if the causal theor...
Given the causal theory of reference, the word “A” can only refer to some object B if that objects stands in a particular causal relationship to the w...
He starts by defending semantic externalism, then by trying to show that if semantic externalism is true then we cannot be brains in a vat, and so con...
His paper is an attempt to show that if semantic externalism is true then we cannot be brains in a vat, so it doesn’t make sense to claim that it’s qu...
What specifically is question-begging? The argument as I understand it is: 1. If metaphysical realism is true then we could be brains in a vat 2. If s...
Semantic externalism is a consequence of the causal theory of reference. Words can only refer to things if these things have had some relevant causal ...
It's been a bad couple of days for Trump. Prosecutors: Trump Mar-a-Lago security aide flipped after changing lawyers Georgia’s fake electors acted at ...
The purpose of the Gettier problem is to show the limitation of the traditional JTB definition of knowledge. If you define knowledge as something like...
It's not clear. Ass'n of Am. Physicians Surgeons v. Clinton, 997 F.2d 898 (D.C. Cir. 1993) Although the Court didn't outright say that it is allowed, ...
The wording suggests that they can be employed as volunteers just not as paid employees. If section b meant they can't be employed under any circumsta...
Not exactly. This case information file was posted and then removed. It seems to be an error given that the case number on it (23SC188945) is apparent...
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-lawyers-challenge-limits-evidence-sharing-prosecutors-warn-threats-2023-08-11/ That's a lot of evidence. I don’...
Meaning he only broke the law a little? Or that the laws he broke shouldn’t be laws at all? Either way it isn't a fallacy to appeal to the law when di...
That's precisely what the prosecution will try to do in court. They believe they have the evidence to do so, hence the indictment. You seem to be sugg...
I'm not going to quote all 45 pages for you. Read it yourself. The above was simply an example of them having evidence of a criminal conspiracy of whi...
They're not criminalising his beliefs and legal counsel. His conspiracy to use fraudulent electors is a crime: Some of the evidence is described in th...
These are the actual laws he's alleged to have broken: 18 U.S. Code § 371 - Conspiracy to defraud the United States 18 U.S. Code § 1512(k) - Conspirac...
Indictment Conspiracy to Defraud the United States Conspiracy to Obstruct an Official Proceeding Obstruction of and Attempt to Obstruct an Official Pr...
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