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Not my idea... Actually against the position I've been arguing for...

Philosophy can be very therapeutic in several different ways. That doesn't make it(being therapeutic) a good thing.

The map/territory distinction is inherently inadequate for taking account of that which is neither. A philosophy which captures what's missing from th...

What is the territory existentially dependent upon?

Saying it doesn't make it so.

Experience at t1 is prior to experience at t2. The former cannot be existentially dependent upon the latter. The former would be throwness if the pers...

Yes. And that continues, I see.

Set out the difference between belief and knowledge. That will set you straight.

No. I have believed something and later found out that I was wrong. I believed that things were a certain way, and it turned out that they were not.

Knowledge is not the sort of thing that is capable of intention.

There's the nonsense and/or self-contradiction. :wink:

Sure we can. It's the difference between belief and knowledge. The former presupposes it's own truth, and the latter is true.

Yup.

No. It always has to be well-grounded, and it doesn't always have to be argued for.

How's that? :wink:

"The earth is flat," "The sun revolves around the earth." Both of those were once thought to be true, but never were. They were called knowledge becau...

The president has never been Tom Cruise. "Tom Cruise is president" is false. According to your logic, we can know that statement.

Need it be? You claim that one can know a false statement. That is nonsense.

The suggestion is nonsense, and leads to self-contradiction.

I do not agree with Sam regarding what counts as justified belief. It does not require being argued for(the act of justification) on my view.

Conflating between truth and belief...

If it ain't true, then it ain't knowledge.

JTB is all about how to differentiate between knowledge claims...

I'm not following Banno. How does the cartoon show that the thread topic is reducible to how we use words?

Being happy is not being depressed.

Being sad is not being at ease.

How does one measure the morality of such a choice? Look at the consequences of everyone doing the same thing. Would the world be a better place? That...

Everyone with a complex enough belief system has ideas about acceptable/unacceptable behaviour. Some are better than others. All instantiate morality....

I don't believe you.

How we use words like "proposition" counts as current language use. Current language use requires language. Some thought and belief do not. That which...

This is very poorly written. Do you have a specific example?

Don't tell me. Show me.

Talking about where to find thought and belief is nonsense. Thought and belief are not the kind of things that have spatiotemporal location.

It seems to me that both words are nouns, and nouns are persons, places, or things. Thought and belief are not persons or places. I've also asked seve...

Proceed? That's been adequately exhausted more times than I care to remember. You really should pay a bit more attention. This isn't our first time go...

May I suggest that you re-read the first page? :wink:

Both are existentially dependent upon language. So the difference doesn't make a difference here. Have fun.

Because many, if not most, hold that there is some absolute, higher power that has made the rules.

Rubbish. Numbers are names of quantities. Numbers are existentially dependent upon language. Quantities are not. Quantities exist prior to numbers. Th...

Some emotion is prior to valuing things. Some is after. Some is a result of valuing things. Some is not. I do not think that there is a direct simple ...

Nope. Meaningful attribution is how we value things...

Does he? Where at in OC does he clearly call Moore's propositions "hinge propositions"? By the way, I'm not judging either way whether or not Witt him...

Gotta love the rhetoric! It's a shame that so many people are more persuaded by it than good sound reasoning... Dennis 1967-2018 is not a valid counte...

Sure. I mean it could be if it fits into some coherent scheme. All alone, strictly speaking, it cannot be valid. Validity is a measure of coherency/co...

This is quite the specious claim, my friend. Pots and kettles. Prior to the heart transplant, Dennis is/was not existentially dependent upon it. After...

I no longer understand your objection. I've conceded that Dennis exists prior to and after the transplant. Nothing you have presented follows what I'v...

I don't think that there are such things as "hinge propositions" or hinge beliefs, at least not in the sense that all other thought and belief are gro...

I have argued that true belief exists prior to language. What I've argued here shows why it is the case that we ought not place too much unwavering im...

Witt follows convention in several ways. He also never draws and maintains a distinction between thought/belief and thinking about thought/belief. Tha...