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I've always heard it was syphilis. What it was wasn't relevant. Disease aside... Better? The Great Moustache's madness pervades his writing...

His insanity was a direct result of not knowing what sort of things could be true and what makes them so. His insanity was a direct result of his not ...

Reader... Take care to note what happened to the Great Moustache. Note the similar feeling of insanity here...

Who needs a new theory to verify that all sorts of people are incapable of recognizing poor reasoning in the wild? The joke is a bit ironic...

This is beginning to look like an exercise in gratuitous assertion with a bit of red herring and non-sequitur thrown in for good measure.

The joke presupposes exactly what is at issue. One cannot give away something they've never had. Poor language use doesn't make a good argument. Talki...

Things other than humans exist. Are you disagreeing?

I'm adhering to my own philosophical position, which places the utmost importance upon getting human thought and belief right.

Human knowledge is existentially dependent upon humans. That's common sense. It does not follow from that that human knowledge cannot be about other t...

I'm not even sure what "'a' knowledge" is supposed to mean. A bit of knowledge, perhaps?

Yeah, you're throwing all sorts of different things out here... Not a bad tact actually. Separate the true claims. Gather them all in one place. See w...

Rubbish. That is on point actually. It's called falsification. It's not about knowledge so much as it is about warrant. That too is what underwrites J...

In order for S to know P, S must be justified in believing P, and P must be true. This too has it's issues, but that's what JTB is about. Not all beli...

JTB does not apply to all the accepted uses of the words "knowledge" or "know" or "knowing"....

What of the Gettier 'problems'? Case I has Gettier changing Smith's belief in a way that changes it's truth conditions, and case two has Gettier misre...

Could you ban Trump for the same reasons, from the country? :smirk:

Justified true belief.

I would agree that (some)thought is prior to language. Not all thought is prior to language. This is a bit irrelevant. The question is whether or not ...

The thread is about thought and belief prior to language(rudimentary thought and belief), and thus, I'm setting out that which is prior to thinking ab...

Of course it's possible. Why wouldn't it be? We're both discussing what we think and believe, respectively, right here and right now.

Knowledge of thought and belief is.

Re-read the first page of the thread... Pay closer attention to the words I'm actually using.

You ask a question such as "What is Truth?"... I answer by telling you that "truth" is a word that has several different accepted uses. You say that d...

I'm just attempting to pave the way for a better method of understanding truth, by virtue of acknowledging that the word has several different uses. D...

I answered. It's a word that has several different accepted uses. Here, you've capitalized it. Why on earth would you do that?

I said the word "truth" reflects nothing specific...

It does not. The word reflects - if we must talk like that - nothing specific whatsoever. Different people use the word "truth" in different ways. All...

What sort of question is this? "If truth is" ??? If truth is... what exactly?

Does the word truth have a being of it's own? Is that what you're asking me?

I'd love to have a formal debate about this. There is a sub-forum here just for that sort of thing.

It's a word that has several different acceptable uses.

I personally use the method of understanding thought and belief, and then apply that understanding as a means to help determine whether or not some ac...

I am of the strongly held position that how we use language affects/effects how we subsequently think. Poor language use results in poor thinking. Con...

Understood. We are alike in this way. It is my well considered opinion that no discipline has gotten thought and belief right. Thus, the thrust of thi...

Edit the OP. Oops. You have already.

Ok. So, there is no common historical school of thought that you find agreeable/amenable to your own worldview in enough ways that you would self-iden...

There is considerable disagreement here, but that isn't my interest. My interest is setting out human thought and belief. One means is existential dep...

This looks like an 'argument' for strict determinism. I'll take issue with the bit about "nothing owes it's existence to humans"... I hope the notion ...

Are you objecting, agreeing, or both? It is unclear to me. Are you denying or agreeing that some things are existentially dependent upon humans and ot...

All the predictions of logic are true? What the hell is that supposed to mean? Predictions are neither true or false when posited. All logical conclus...

Our considerations increase in interesting ways when setting out what the attribution/recognition of causality and meaning consists in/of. Whatever it...

All thought and belief consists of the attribution/recognition of causality/meaning. We say this because all known examples do. There are no exception...

Notta problem Posty. I'm setting out a criterion which - when met - counts as being thought and belief. I am claiming that all thought and belief are ...

May be best to have a better re-read later... Have I left any objection uncovered? If I'm missing a valid objection, by all means, please let me know....

How are these two claims applicable here? The first is a bald assertion. I've already argued for the negative of that claim. I've no reason to believe...

If it is it is by pure accident. I've not thought in such terms here.

I'm not sure what's confusing. Nothing I've said is incommensurate with the objection. That tells me that perhaps there's a misunderstanding at work h...

Rudimentary as in - is not existentially dependent upon our awareness that they exist. Nothing at the baseline of all thought and belief is a given, o...

It doesn't follow from the fact that some sounds find no ear that we cannot talk about such things.