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Try? That's hilarious. As if it's impossible to discard. Read my threads. Nah. I reject it based upon my own knowledge of all human thought and belief...
November 14, 2019 at 02:55
The question(implied) was about the referent of the name "pure reason". To what are you referring? What is the criterion/definition of "pure reason" t...
November 14, 2019 at 02:37
What about logical thought, and rational reasoning? :gasp:
November 14, 2019 at 02:24
It either did or it did not. I strongly believe that it did. I know what naming practices require. I know what discovery requires. If things did not e...
November 14, 2019 at 02:19
The problem was that statement about the meaning of Shakespeare's works being in his head. That's just not the case, and we know that beyond a reasona...
November 14, 2019 at 02:01
Glad I saw this. Last I looked it read differently. "Mt. Everest" picks out a particular mountain. That mountain existed in it's entirety prior to bei...
November 13, 2019 at 07:21
That's a different question entirely. A reductio ad absurdum is not about the person guilty of holding belief that leads to such. Rather, it's about o...
November 13, 2019 at 05:26
Some implies more than one. Somehow implies more than one way for time to be dependent upon an observer. "No. No. No." applies to one kind of dependen...
November 13, 2019 at 05:18
No. No. No. No.
November 13, 2019 at 04:18
That doesn't work. Here's the question again... Substitution leaves us with "How do we know Mt. Everest to be the case?" That question doesn't make se...
November 13, 2019 at 04:17
Whoa... You asked, "How do we know that to be the case?" Please set out the referent for the term "that". I'm trying to answer the question. I want to...
November 13, 2019 at 04:04
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Terrapin? Sometimes it's just best to say "ok"... and do it. Especially when someone else who tells you to is the boss of you! :wink:
November 13, 2019 at 04:00
Regarding 1. Please set out the referent of "that". Regarding 2. Discard such a concept. Regarding 3. Carving needs something to be carved.
November 13, 2019 at 03:56
That's the only starting point. I've expressed my own well considered opinion regarding the purported lack of means. We have a means. Language use. No...
November 13, 2019 at 03:52
Yup. It seems necessary to have them once again... I'm a bit puzzled by the second part. If it is the case that Mt. Everest existed in it's entirety p...
November 13, 2019 at 03:48
It's a living organism that has some form of rudimentary physiological sensory perception. You tell me. I'm just trying to delineate. I'm not feeling ...
November 13, 2019 at 03:45
An amoeba?
November 13, 2019 at 03:41
Are you suggesting that an argument needs to be made for the following statement... "Mt Everest existed in it's entirety prior to it's discovery?
November 13, 2019 at 03:40
I would agree if we changed that slightly to "help generate"... What's a "perceiver"?
November 13, 2019 at 03:38
Mt. Everest existed in it's entirety prior to it's discovery. A galaxy millions of light years away would exist regardless of whether or not we know a...
November 13, 2019 at 03:35
Experience is a quality? Consisting entirely of Quale?
November 13, 2019 at 03:30
If one wants to know what it's like to experience X, one must know what all experience has in common. It is only knowledge of that sort that allows on...
November 13, 2019 at 03:27
This realist doesn't. It's always easiest to argue against another when one misunderstands to begin with.
November 13, 2019 at 03:18
Actually it's spot on. There's a couple of different perfectly acceptable ways to characterize the claims you've been making. I think there's somethin...
November 13, 2019 at 02:34
That's what I aim to find out for myself, with a little help from you. I personally do not think it makes any sense at all, let alone common sense... ...
November 13, 2019 at 02:24
What makes you believe that? :brow: There's also disagreement about whether or not mind/consciousness produces meaning. I know how. :wink:
November 13, 2019 at 01:52
Pure reason? As in reasoning from an armchair?
November 13, 2019 at 01:39
Two questions... What are logical forms taking account of? Would you agree that "that which exists in it's entirety prior to common language" is a cat...
November 13, 2019 at 01:35
Here's my problem... well, not mine so much a the one I'm pointing out yet again. It pertains directly to the OP... Let us for a moment consider wheth...
November 13, 2019 at 01:28
Nothing much worth objecting to...
November 12, 2019 at 08:44
As if I'm obligated to answer for issues you've raised that have nothing to do with my position... Happy modeling! :smile: ---------------------------...
November 12, 2019 at 08:40
There is self contradiction resulting from equivocation. The equivocation is regarding the term "racist". In particular, the criterion for what counts...
November 12, 2019 at 06:43
There is more than one acceptable sensible conventional sense of the term "categorical error". It is a name with more than one referent. The one will ...
November 12, 2019 at 03:42
I re-read the exchange. I understood it. I didn't so much disagree with you. Rather, I found that it was rather incomplete, in that you offered choice...
November 11, 2019 at 16:03
I would agree. The trick is to acquire reasonable ground for establishing the criterion used to determine which ones ought be excluded. Could you set ...
November 11, 2019 at 05:23
Indeed, although being born into a shareable world is a better starting point. Language makes it shared. The result, of course, is that the world is a...
November 11, 2019 at 05:18
We have before us now, a listing of categorical errors... Which ones will be used to render judgment upon whether or not a premiss of our choosing qua...
November 11, 2019 at 01:09
So... what is a biological race such that one could conflate it with ethnicity and in doing so qualify for being racist? You've never answered this qu...
November 10, 2019 at 21:59
So, we agree that fleshing out the premisses supporting one's conclusions is key. Based upon the latest exchanges, I'm curious about what you're refer...
November 10, 2019 at 21:48
Simply put, you've claimed to think X but not believe X. In addition, you've claimed to not think that others exist, and yet here you are...
November 10, 2019 at 21:46
So, we must surely abandon Kantian language here. For anything that exists in it's entirety prior to our naming and descriptive practices qualifies fo...
November 10, 2019 at 21:40
Having pain is the experience. I have direct access to having pain of my own, and I have indirect access to another's. There are two kinds of accessib...
November 10, 2019 at 20:51
Being mistaken about X is forming, having, and/or holding false belief regarding X.
November 10, 2019 at 20:47
This bit began with my pointing out that identifying the premisses is key. You agreed, then remarked that it is often the case that there is an unreco...
November 10, 2019 at 20:37
If you understood me as implying anything to the contrary, we ought chalk it up to poor writing on my part.
November 10, 2019 at 20:27
I cannot speak for Banno, but I think his invocation of the view from everywhere leans on the inevitable social element of language that all views hav...
November 10, 2019 at 20:22
That which is common to all views. <-------That's what I'm fostering. None of the proposed attitudes above are inevitable as a result of pursuing such...
November 10, 2019 at 00:09
:razz: Gotta admire the modest self deprecation...
November 09, 2019 at 23:59
Gettier needs for Smith to believe that someone else will get the job. He doesn't. He can't. Rather, Smith is justified in believing that he will, and...
November 09, 2019 at 23:40
Study Gettier's 1963 paper...
November 09, 2019 at 23:25