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This is not true on a plurality of levels... The solipsist argument is false for it is impossible to arrive at such a complex high level of abstract t...

One can know what "the cup is on the table" means without knowing what the word "premiss" means. Do you see how that is fatal to what you maintain?

One can say something as many times as one likes. That doesn't make it true. It does make it 'maintained'... You have no idea what you're talking abou...

And if thinking of hands is existentially dependent upon and external world?

You're either avoiding the valid objection, or you don't understand it. I'll grant sincerity. You don't understand it. Of course I've provided you exa...

I do not have an argument to support that. I thought it would be easy enough to invent one. I was wrong... at least for now. :blush:

Understood.

What reason is there to believe that one can dream of hands prior to thinking about them?

What you've called "philosophical" I would call "radical". It is borne of failing to draw the distinction between thought and belief and thinking abou...

On what ground do you disagree with p1?

Reason requires a baseline from which to reason. The baseline consists of language use which talks about the world and/or ourselves. Reason requires l...

Yes. Thinking doesn't have a definitive spatiotemporal location. It owes it's existence to a plethora of simpler things. One is physiological sensory ...

I think that Moore is separating the fools of the audience. Who - in that situation - would deny that Moore's hand is external to them?

What's the formal fallacy?

:yikes: No... and then explain why the correct answer is "yes"... So, you admit that thoughts and ideas are not existentially dependent upon physiolog...

Using a belief statement as a premiss requires metacognition. Metacognition includes thinking about one's own thought and belief. Knowing what "the cu...

I haven't defined it and you're avoiding a valid objection.

It would only follow that all knowledge is existentially dependent upon thinking about thought and belief.

Care to explain why you think that this reply is relevant to what it's supposed to be addressing?

One can know that the statement "there is a cup on the table" is true by virtue of knowing what the statement is talking about, and then looking to se...

So, if an average 8 year old child is asked if "there is a cup on the table" is true and s/he answers "yes" while pointing at the cup, you're saying t...

Surely everyone knows that self-satisfaction plays no crucial role in being justified... This lets me know what Moore and I have always had in common ...

So, it's about the justification aspect?

Hey Marchesk... One could deny any one of the premisses, I would think. Common sense prevails to me... A correlation requires a plurality of things. A...

So... On what ground would one base such a condition for knowledge? Why must all knowledge claims(I'm assuming empirical claims) be able to be doubted...

I would readily agree. Give me another few years, and I'll have you on board before you know it! :wink:

Yeah. Sorry, I was more hesitant than was warranted. I wasn't certain about the accuracy of my recollection. It's been a while since I seriously read ...

I'm a strict determinist... :wink: You're right though. There are more than one legitimate relation between the brain state and groups of similar acti...

See we're just making my point about the dichotomy... as we speak! It cannot take account of that which is both. Toss it and come to better terms.

Yeah. My apologies... We agree here. I've no problem with Kant's Noumena, as I understand it to be... a negative limit on our thoughts, and that's it!...

So Sam... With Witt's strict application of the phrase "I know", aren't there things that we can surmise about his thoughts on the matter that perhaps...

Causally, no less...

I wholeheartedly agree with this... Here though, you take the equally extreme other end... The world is not entirely outside of ourselves that we expe...

There's good reason why the term object is scarequoted... :wink:

I love ya Jeep... I agree that it remains a thorny problem. On my view, much of the problem is/was the result of poor conception. The objective/subjec...

Socrates' notion of human reason, thought and belief remains prominent...

Yeah, you're probably right. I mean I wouldn't argue against that. It wasn't the best supportive reasoning... I was more applying the consequences of ...

Yeah, I've heard that argument in different forms before as well. Nagel is pretty good. I'll have to have a look at that. Thanks. However, here's what...

Focusing on the author... is not necessarily an ad hom. This is true. It is also true that you have not focused upon the author as a means for objecti...

A child amidst language acquisition doesn't need to accept any premiss such as "auditory input is reliable" in order to know that that thing over ther...

No. This is confused. One can know that the statement "there is a cup on the table" is true by virtue of looking. There is no need for one to refer to...

I've heard this before. We've discussed this before as well. My viewpoint hasn't changed much regarding it. Why would we need to step outside our mind...

You're just jealous of the size and scope of this novelty... It is quite problematic for you. Your posts are beginning to degrade into nothing but rhe...

Does understanding how to use the English language count as referring to another premiss? All premisses are statements. Some statements are true. Some...

Verification/falsification

p3 is false

Go back a page or two... I already did. No need to do it again. I won't reply to you here in this thread about that though. Banno's back on track.

If reality includes other people it most certainly cares about that. :wink:

You asserted that physiological sensory perception isn't necessary for drawing correlations or meaning. Now you claim that thoughts and ideas are conn...

It's a misnomer of sorts anyway. QM is math. Math has rigid designations(meaning). Interpreting QM into normal language is bunk.