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So... Witt has examples of conventional JTB in his writing(follows convention). He denies that Moore's propositions are propositions in the convention...

The question itself is conflating distinctly different time periods, according to your own example. Conflating different time periods loses the distin...

I understand where you're coming from, but I do not think that all ethical rules are on equal ground. Some aren't hard to follow. The right ones, impl...

I agree that to say the sculpture ceases to exist would be absurd. I think that it can be the same sculpture and the sculpture prior to the box cannot...

By the way, I'd argue against Heraclitus, and have. It might be interesting to flesh out the differences. I suspect that you'll take me to task on tha...

:blush: That's quite clever. I laughed out loud! Thanks. It doesn't follow from the premiss in question, nor does it pose a problem for it. Dennis pri...

What would count as proof to you? :worry:

I think it may serve us well to take a moment and review all that we've agreed upon. I'm fairly confident that our disagreements aren't as important, ...

We just disagree here Sam. Do you have any evidence from posthumous works that support the idea that Witt did not follow the conventional notion of JT...

Present an argument or a valid objection to my own. Not interested in anything else, especially gratuitous assertions.

I did not say that, nor does it follow from what I've written. The claim in question is this... That which exists prior to something else cannot be ex...

Not Booker. Too inexperienced, and doesn't seem to have a moral compass beyond civil rights he's interested in.

Nice! Thanks for the follow up Sam Sam... Being honest is remarkably important in more ways than many have imagined. Morality is best understood as a ...

My condolences csal...

Why ask? You already know what you ought do.

Because truth is presupposed in all thought, belief, and the statements which follow. The presupposition of truth is an elemental constituent of all t...

Yes. The sculpture existed prior to the metal box. The sculpture would've changed. That's the artists' prerogative. This gets into the ambiguity of wh...

Most certainly... Correlations drawn between 'objects' of physiological sensory perception and/or the creature itself. Owls detect infrared.

I tentatively agree. Observation alone is utterly inadequate. We must also have some standard, some criterion, some measure of what counts as belief. ...

My take is all thought and belief consists of drawing correlations between different things, visual memory could be one of those things...

I understand that, and it follows Witt's line of thinking. The problems, however, are immanent. First actions are not reliable indicators of belief. S...

And I am. I do not see how what you've provided serves as a counter-example and/or negation.

The sculpture existed prior to the metal box. That which exists prior to something else cannot be existentially dependent upon it. The sculpture is no...

Which have went unanswered?

Causality is not existentially dependent upon language. Drawing correlations, associations, and/or connections between different things(not language c...

The diagram can have plenty said about it that is sensible. The center is the existential commonality between three distinct manifestations of that co...

My understanding is different. I have held that the person who had the final say in what was kept and what was not was not Constantine, but some other...

Would you like for that to be put into argumentative form?

These are the fourth and fifth posts of the thread Sam...

p1 Some well grounded belief exists prior to language p2 Providing ground is existentially dependent upon language C1 Some well grounded belief is not...

p1 Some true belief can exist prior to language p2 That which exists prior to something else cannot be existentially dependent upon it C1 Some true be...

p1 Justification is existentially dependent upon metacognition p2 Metacognition is existentially dependent upon language C1 Justification is existenti...

No. it is not. Indeed, what I'm arguing isn't exactly along the lines of Witt's hinge propositions. However, I do strongly believe that if there are/i...

Good. I suspected that we were in agreement there. We can also further surmise something of importance from this... Justification is not necessary in ...

A belief does not need to be argued for in order for it to be well-grounded.

Justifying one's belief provides the ground for that belief. Do we agree?

That seems to be the sticking point...

My position is that all epistemological constructs are linguistic. Not all things being taken account of are linguistic. Some of our constructs take a...

This reflects misunderstanding. No fault here, just reporting the facts. There has been a misunderstanding. What I've been arguing is quite unusual, a...

Let's revisit the liar... A statement's ability to be true/false is existentially dependent upon drawing meaningful correlations between different thi...

If we're looking to acquire knowledge of that which exists prior to language, we must use language for it's the only means available. It quite simply ...

We can acquire knowledge of that which exists prior to language. If that doesn't count as getting beneath language, then nothing can, and it is an utt...

This thread is relevant...

Is there such a thing as apriori knowledge, and if so how can we acquire it, and/or know about it? Witt spent much time researching answers to this so...

Remind me of apokrisis... Or rather, a friendlier version thereof.

Don't they teach you these sorts of basic common sense principles in school anymore? :wink: Didn't you assert yourself as in your early twenties in an...

Our knowledge is about it. Our knowledge of it is not equivalent to it.

No. See the five rules of existential dependency.. No. It would make it logically impossible - to be nice. Something cannot require that which it does...

I'm with Quine here.

A thing can be dependent upon something else for all sorts of things aside from it's own existence.