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Is it though? Seems to be a different explanation of the same phenomenon; one with fewer entities, no self-contradiction, equal explanatory power, and...
July 20, 2018 at 05:12
Well, I once held that view as well... Joe watches a car accident happen. A brown car ran a red light and crashed into a blue one. Joe knows the drive...
July 20, 2018 at 04:17
What's wrong with saying that they believed nothing was wrong, but after all night passing without change in their condition, they began to believe th...
July 20, 2018 at 03:57
p1 Being tricked requires not knowing your being tricked. p2 Tricking another requires knowing you're tricking. c1 Tricking oneself requires knowing t...
July 20, 2018 at 03:23
Not really. I disagree with the framework itself. I acknowledge that many, if not most, folk talk in ways that lead to self-contradiction and/or incoh...
July 20, 2018 at 03:09
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If my mother had not given birth to me, I would not be here right now, in this moment. This conversation could not be happening if my mother had never...
July 20, 2018 at 02:33
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I admire your tenacity Sapientia. It could use a little better baseline for judgment. Here's what's happening... I've used a phrase in a way unfamilia...
July 20, 2018 at 02:17
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Yes. I'm in agreement with using the term "belief" within an after the fact explanation for why one acted as they did.
July 20, 2018 at 01:48
Being intentionally led by another to believe something is not self-deception.
July 19, 2018 at 06:13
These options offer little more than unnecessary and unhelpful restriction to the considerations here. My notion of what counts as a lie need not exha...
July 19, 2018 at 06:10
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We can look for keys in the kitchen even when it is not the case that we believe that they are in the kitchen. However, this doesn't negate the idea t...
July 19, 2018 at 02:44
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Aren't you shifting the focus from what counts as belief to what counts as acting rationally?
July 19, 2018 at 02:41
It's not so much that I haven't heard of such reports, it's that I'm questioning the reporting itself. I do not see how any of it qualifies as deliber...
July 19, 2018 at 02:39
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Or acting under duress...
July 19, 2018 at 02:22
Looks like rhetorical muddle. Which part is thought and belief?
July 19, 2018 at 02:20
Are you talking about cases where someone changes some standard they hold?
July 19, 2018 at 02:01
If you didn't say that, then your example is irrelevant, a lie is deliberately misrepresenting one's own thought and belief.
July 19, 2018 at 01:59
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I am existentially dependent upon my mother, regardless of what happens after I come into the world through her womb. My existence yesterday, today, a...
July 19, 2018 at 01:38
Deliberately misrepresenting is not forgetting...
July 18, 2018 at 17:13
Yeah, I'm not following you... What counts as a lie? What is the criterion which, when met, counts as being a lie?
July 18, 2018 at 08:03
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No. The explanation is as clear as a bell and you've still misunderstood. No. Introspection is existentially dependent upon language. Language upon ot...
July 18, 2018 at 08:00
Yeah, I'm at a loss... It's a foreign notion. Could you elaborate, so I can know more about this notion of how one can deliberately misrepresent their...
July 18, 2018 at 04:55
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Existential dependency Sapientia...
July 18, 2018 at 04:46
When someone believes that they know something that they do not, they hold false belief about themselves. Holding false belief is neither necessary no...
July 18, 2018 at 03:55
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That's true Sapientia. That was the explanation you offered for saying that "introspection requires others" is 'demonstrably false'. Well, you demonst...
July 18, 2018 at 03:39
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So... We come to talk about our beliefs by virtue of language acquisition and metacognition(introspection). What if we've gotten things wrong? Not in ...
July 18, 2018 at 03:21
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There's a post above you where all your concerns are adequately explained. Care to address it? :wink:
July 18, 2018 at 03:05
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Mirror, mirror... Your approach here leaves me little reason to continue with you Sap... I still love ya... :halo:
July 18, 2018 at 02:58
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The chickens, ducks, and all the other animals see me, and if they are hungry they come... Why? Because they believe that they will be fed. They do no...
July 18, 2018 at 02:49
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Yes. I am painfully aware of that fact. :wink: That's not my problem though. Rather, my problem is showing how that kind of talk is (a big part of)the...
July 18, 2018 at 02:38
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p1 Introspection requires language. p2 Language is social. C1 Introspection requires that which is social.(from p1 and p2) p3 Being social requires ot...
July 18, 2018 at 02:35
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Beliefs are not mental states Banno. Fear is a mental state. Being excited is a mental state. Being confused is a mental state. Being content, relaxed...
July 18, 2018 at 02:21
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"Believing one is hungry" is an odd way to talk. One eats for any number of reasons. All of which are belief-based.
July 18, 2018 at 02:04
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Sapientia is evidently hung up on the idea that he can think about his own thought, belief, and 'feelings' when no one else is around, and dubiously c...
July 18, 2018 at 01:55
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I have... numerous times over.
July 18, 2018 at 01:42
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Please do.
July 17, 2018 at 16:56
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All belief is meaningful. All meaning is attributed. All attribution of meaning requires something to become symbol, something to become symbolized, a...
July 17, 2018 at 16:51
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No. I'm not kidding. Valid refutation is required. In short... Introspection is metacognitive Metacognition requires language Introspection requires l...
July 17, 2018 at 16:46
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We can get things right about thinking and believing creatures, and thus about ourselves, but not all by oneself. Be careful who you trust. Some folk ...
July 17, 2018 at 09:14
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A complete picture of "belief" requires eliminating the talk about different senses by virtue of effectively combining and subsequently exhausting all...
July 17, 2018 at 05:40
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p1 Introspection requires language. p2 Language is social. C1 Introspection requires that which is social.(from p1 and p2) p3 Being social requires ot...
July 17, 2018 at 04:40
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I would not agree to saying that the way all beliefs are related is logic. Doing so would render logic in such a way that allows it to be illogical, b...
July 17, 2018 at 04:36
It's not that complicated. One always know when they have just said something that they do not believe. An honest speaker will immediately correct the...
July 17, 2018 at 03:52
Knowing that 'X' is false makes it impossible to believe 'X'. I believe 'X' about myself. I cannot do both, know that 'X' is false(about myself) and b...
July 17, 2018 at 03:39
Since lying is deliberately misrepresenting one's own thought and belief, and it is always done in situations when the speaker believes that they ough...
July 16, 2018 at 15:57
I'm listening Bitter. I suspect that our criteria for what counts as being a lie differs. Does sincerity matter to you, or does truth? That makes all ...
July 16, 2018 at 04:28
Cannot be done my friend... When one lies, they are intentionally misrepresenting their own thought and belief. One cannot do that to oneself.
July 16, 2018 at 03:08
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All thought, belief, and statements are the product of meaningful correlation. There are no examples to the contrary.
July 16, 2018 at 03:05
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Indeed. I'll give you one guess what the operative mechanism of that inter-relation is...
July 16, 2018 at 03:04
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All explanation is belief-based. All explanation is grounded upon belief. The above makes little sense in light of that... Some explanation is sincere...
July 15, 2018 at 07:14