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I would agree that we can find ourselves defining(talking about) that which is not existentially contingent upon human thought/belief and/or language....

The subjective/objective dichotomy is inherently incapable of taking account of that which requires, consists in/of, and/or is existentially contingen...

The golden rule quite mistakenly presupposes that everyone likes being treated the same way. It's not good to treat another in a way that they do not ...

I'm not sure what the issue is. There is no need to provide a way to prove that we can 'escape' the objective/subjective dichotomy. We know that it is...

Well, that's part of the problem. The way you've learned to talk about stuff isn't helpful at all. It seems to me that you're going through the proces...

If it were true that everyone presupposes that everyone else has the same morality and/or personal value system, then we would not be having this conv...

Hey Srap... Yeah, it seems to me that ockhams razors is a standard by which to choose between competing explanations. I take it to mean that when face...

What's left to explain? In order to know that two things are alike and/or similar, we must be able to perform a comparative analysis. Unless God appea...

I'm not sure of my train of thought is what you're after Sam. Fdrake seems to be thinking along the lines you're looking for. I suppose I'm working fr...

The point was obscure. I'll make it clearer... There is no difference between an idea of God and God. There are only differences between ideas of God.

Interesting. Do we not need to examine all of the examples with the intentional purpose of looking to identify and isolate each and every common denom...

How could you possibly know that without comparing God to an idea of God? :-x

Hey Sam. So, I'm wondering here. Since you've been researching first hand accounts of NDE's, have you noticed any similarities that run along familial...

I would agree that we can find ourselves defining(talking about) that which is not existentially contingent upon human thought/belief and/or language....

Hey Sam... I want to first say that you're a model for how to appropriately interact on forums such as this. You may remember my avatar name, maybe no...

Those sorts of things are "true" by definition. Our definition. It's not merely a challenge. The dichotomy cannot account of the aforementioned things...

On my view, truth is correspondence 'between' thought/belief and fact/reality. It is presupposed within thought/belief formation. Without an agent the...

Yeah. That's good advice. It's tough for me to follow. :-|

Interesting. I've never looked at my position using such terms...

p1 The rules of correct inference preserve the truth of a thought/belief/premiss p2 The rules of entailment do not preserve the truth of a thought/bel...

Which part of what I wrote are you addressing Posty? I'm offering the strongest justification possible for removing the rules of entailment from the r...

If the rules of entailment can be shown to be both followed and unable to preserve the truth of the premisses, then we are saying that the "rules of c...

This quite mistakenly presupposes that everyone has the same morality and/or personal value system, i.e; not everyone likes being treated the same way...

The subjective/objective dichotomy is inherently incapable of taking account of that which requires, consists in/of, and/or is existentially contingen...

Seems clear to me that the rules of entailment warrant a careful re-thinking.

This presupposes that the rules of entailment are infallible regarding truth. I disagree. Gettier shows otherwise, despite the fact that he (mis)repor...

The above works from an utterly inadequate, and all too common, (mis)conception of belief. Belief statements are always believed by the speaker. State...

The above works from an utterly inadequate, and all too common, (mis)conception of belief. Belief statements are always believed by the speaker. State...

I'm gonna be famous. 8-)

The self-induced bewitchment of inadequate language use. It's not just Gettier.

Judging Smith's belief by virtue of measuring something that he does not believe is a categorical mistake in judgment.

When we're actively establishing what counts as thought/belief, we're seeking to isolate and set aside common denominators that remain extant after id...

That was from page 5. Smith believes p v q is true because p.

So, then an adequate account of your belief would be... You believe that either London is the capital city of England or pigs can fly is true because ...

This works from the mistaken presupposition that the content of g, h, and i are equivalent to the content of Smith's believing g, h, and i. It's not. ...

If g, h, and i follow from f and if I believe that f is true then I must believe that g, h, and i are true because f. g is false. i is false. h is tru...

If p is true then p ? q is true. If there is strong evidence that p is true then there is strong evidence that p ? q is true. If one has strong eviden...

This presupposes belief that p or q is true if p is true.

In the end, I'm not even questioning the rules of disjunction. I'm showing that believing a proposition is not always adequately accounted for by virt...

I mean... C'mon people. What sense does it make to offer an account of belief which contains that which is not believed? None. Sure, a disjunction can...

Smith's simultaneously believing all three of the following disjunctions is impossible unless Smith has no belief regarding Brown's whereabouts, and i...

Since you mentioned it... The truth-bearing approach works from the historical and quite mistaken presupposition that truth is existentially contingen...

Propositions are not equivalent to belief statements.

Smith is justified in his false belief. Gettier is not justified in leaving out the necessary content thereof.

The statement "the man who has ten coins in his pocket will get the job" is true because Jones will get the job, and Jones has tens coins in his pocke...

I think that there is something to be gleaned out of the fact that B consists of more than one statement. What counts as being a proposition is starkl...

Certainty is a measure of conviction and it is proportional to i. the sheer number of thought/belief grounded upon that which one is certain of, proba...

When the criterion for being true is satisfied by being the result of a valid inference, it is prima facie evidence of an inadequate conceptual scheme...

The man with ten coins in his pocket will get the job because Jones has ten coins in his pocket, and Jones is the man who will get the job.

I'm working on it. X-) If you want, you could start at page 40 or so, and let me know what you think. Weaknesses, etc.