apokrisis

I'm not following you. I've talked about all those things. You seem to want to make some campaign against abduction as a concept. And I am interested ...

OK. So you have recapped the gist of Ancient Greek metaphysical dilemmas. Let's jump to the resolution. Individuation is always true from some point o...

Rock it like it's still the 1970s!

I'm not getting too hung up on the divisions. There is the more familiar dichotomy of deductive vs inductive argument - necessary inferences vs probab...

OK. But I am finding your whole position a struggle to follow. So this would seem the missing link. And yes, a proper understanding of what we might m...

We don't need to be idealists to see that this is wrong. Talk of states-of-affairs only makes sense in relation to talk of points-of-view. And whether...

Thank goodness for some commonsense. The interesting thing was that a valid deductive syllogism could be defined in terms of the three elements, the t...

What kind of content would you predict that a social species with a big natural interest in social dramas might find gripping? Stories of love, hurt, ...

I’ve already said there isn’t a sharp line as the two things are blended in development. The self is a mix of nature and nurture. It’s the same story ...

Hmm. Again it is baffling that you sound like you believe this is some kind of devastating criticism. Abduction finds the assumptions from which concl...

So now you prefer the locution to be: "The answer would be that we can't have any kind of truth or certainty."? Are you sure? Try again perhaps.

Calling them invalid does nothing except highlight that their truth claims hinge on matters of semantics rather than syntax. It's so funny watching yo...

That's what you get for trying to be precise I guess. Folk still don't take any notice. :) And largely biologically constructed as well. Don't now jus...

What's odd is that you want to waste all your time on a philosophy site ranting against critical thinking. But I'm guessing you suddenly have a lot of...

The answer would be that we can't have any kind of absolute truth or certainty. So it is a question that was answered. That clears the field to get on...

Really? Is that the best you can do?

Err, no. Well when you shift the goalposts that way, then claiming that there is an "I" that has an innate preference is of course what would be count...

How exactly could you reject them without determining which of them was responsible for some failure of prediction? You could plan your future with Ta...

Again, it is wonderful that you accept a pragmatic account of truth and rationality. But you are still confusing philosophy with your personal satisfa...

Well, maybe some of us have larger epistemic concerns than the world that encompasses our breakfast, lunch and dinner. Your account is just so shallow...

Erm, the story is that the future is like the past in that its total entropy has increased by much the same amount yet again. The basic constraints in...

The relevance is that it introduces a third and missing step in reasoning as a holistic process. And it is interesting in that so far it is the least ...

Since you asked, Schop, I agree with Pseudonym that you seem to be trying to draw too sharp a line here. It doesn't make sense to argue that Homo sapi...

The reasoning might not be purely deductive, but it is scientific reasoning that thus includes a deductive element. So a full account of the reasoning...

Whether a doubt feels vaguely intuited or crisply expressed is a separate issue. And one that makes no essential difference except that a doubt has to...

Fair enough. I am biased because I particularly sought out those who I felt took a properly integrated view of the issue. So yes, the Platonic tripart...

But how could you know something wasn't quite right unless you were making a prediction that it would be otherwise in some sense? So yes, the predicti...

But when you say something that actually reaches past a conventional or habitual level of understanding, isn't that the feature rather than the bug? I...

Dry up Banno. I made posts that addressed his points about neural states and attempts to find a grounding in something inarguable because it is "natur...

Yep. Whenever it comes down to it, you don't actually have an argument. It was simply a posture.

If you answered things straightaway then life would be simpler.

That's true. But can you explain to me what the difference actually is as far as you are concerned. Of course, pragmatism doesn't actually pretend its...

So let's take a more useful example to flush out what you could possibly mean by epistemic justification. "God created the earth and mankind, the Big ...

And to the point of tedium, you won't discuss the informal acts of measurement that are needed to show such truth in practice. So same old same old. Y...

Rather that's a brief argument for semiotics and the epistemic cut. Yes, it shows that there is a separation of our "minds" from "the world". The inte...

That's a little lame when you wouldn't give a definition of what "truth" might be taken to mean in your view. I agreed it might be tautologically true...

Hah. Well there is certainly still something in Hegelianism. But it took Peirce to make the case that there is no direct correspondence between the re...

But that's not really the issue, is it. Yes, of course, it is impressive that we seem to find it pretty easy to deal with everyday "truth". Agreeing o...

1) The first is too strong. Even an axiomatic or grounding supposition needs to be doubtable to be believable. It has to be framed in a way that has a...

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Bad day? Every laugh at your expense must surely be an entry in the credit column of the great ledger of life. And now you admit that your aim is to g...

Well my view is shaped by having being deeply concerned with the research into the question 30 years ago. So yes, there was a cogsci representationali...

Focus, Banno. Breathe deeply and focus. :)

Different question. I was emphasising what makes it reasonable to believe in causal continuity. You are now asking the empirical question of where is ...

So you have a simple deterministic account of the quantum eraser experiments that doesn’t involve retrocausality or some kind of outlandish multiverse...

Why is it reasonably probable that the past predicts the future? Because the constraints or deep structures that generate patterns tend to have been b...

Yeah. It is difficult to see what is considered special about this as it seems simply another restatement of pragmatist, or social constructionist, ap...

So to the extent that we neither have to question ourselves nor our worlds to any degree, commonsensicalism works fine as an epistemology? It does app...

As a point of interest, note how the quietist likes to confuse regulative and constitutive principles. Arbitrary human-invented rule-based systems lik...

What about a theory that claims merely to provide a better answer? And indeed, a pragamatic theory of epistemology that says there are no ultimates as...