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Seems to me that that's a tad too strongly put. Conventional belief attribution practices may end that way, but that's a flaw born of conflating propo...
April 01, 2025 at 00:22
Broken clocks are not reliable time tellers. That's about the J part. The content of belief is not equivalent to a report of it. That's about the B pa...
March 31, 2025 at 09:17
After they become aware that they believed a broken clock was working or before? :wink:
March 31, 2025 at 09:09
I may be inclined, if you like, to offer candidates of JTB that are not Gettier cases. We could then apply your concepts/reasoning to them and see wha...
March 30, 2025 at 18:09
Anyway, I'm okay with our views being different. I wasn't okay with being invited to criticize and then being given the response that was given to wha...
March 30, 2025 at 17:46
This presupposes that the belief had epistemic validity to begin with. "It is three o'clock" does not follow from believing that a broken clock is wor...
March 30, 2025 at 17:37
Yes, generally speaking. I would further say that there are significant differences between some and others. However, all of them, I think, directly i...
March 30, 2025 at 16:52
On my view, predictions of future events(belief about what will happen later) are capable of neither being true or false at the time they're made.
March 30, 2025 at 16:04
Yep. Detached from the believer, "P" can mean very different things as is clearly shown by the difference in truth conditions between Smith's belief a...
March 30, 2025 at 15:54
Since you mentioned/used it, the first case aims at Chisholm's formulation directly below. S knows that P IFF, (i) S accepts P, (ii) S has adequate ev...
March 30, 2025 at 14:43
Irrelevant to the point being made. Gettier's claim to fame is/was that his examples undermine/undermined two widely accepted formulations of JTB by v...
March 30, 2025 at 14:33
Sure it is. Gettier offered two cases which purportedly qualified as JTB yet were not knowledge. If Gettier offered two cases of justified false belie...
March 30, 2025 at 13:48
Is Smith's belief accidentally true or is it false? It cannot be both. It is a problem for JTB, only if it's true. If it is justified false belief, th...
March 30, 2025 at 13:08
Okay. Good. How would it affect/effect your view/explanation if both cases are examples of justified false belief, rather than justified true belief?
March 30, 2025 at 12:13
On your view, are Gettier cases, in both the actual paper and the various cottage industry cases, examples of justified true belief?
March 30, 2025 at 11:55
Good morning Ludwig! :smile: I'm not well read on Hobbes' variation and its details/consequences, although what you say seems about right with respect...
March 30, 2025 at 11:39
Nice example of an ad hom argument charging others of the same. Goes nicely with the earlier ad hom you offered in response to the very simple critici...
March 30, 2025 at 11:00
The ship never stops being the ship. If a change in physical constituency demands different identity, then it would be impossible to name things fast ...
March 30, 2025 at 00:21
Presupposes you know mine. Presupposed you know the argument and it's logical consequences. Please, set this line of thinking out, along with it's con...
March 30, 2025 at 00:06
Hey Ludwig! Hope you are well in this unsettled world.
March 26, 2025 at 22:47
What argument? Set it out.
March 26, 2025 at 22:30
The burden here is yours, not mine. The assumption you're working from is misguided. You're assuming that Gettier showed a problem for the J in JTB. Y...
March 26, 2025 at 21:46
I can be certain of far more than that. I think your conflating truth with certainty/confidence. All sorts of claims are true, regardless of whether o...
March 26, 2025 at 00:39
Nothing is true? The irony. The name-calling doubles the icing.
March 25, 2025 at 23:54
Timestamping is not used to prevent change, whether that be changes in the way things are or our knowledge about them. I suppose I'm not seeing the ne...
March 25, 2025 at 23:34
Your notion of "change" is untenable. I'm reminded of Heraclites' river. Change is irrelevant to JTB. At time t1(insert well-grounded true claim here)...
March 25, 2025 at 23:18
Personally, I find no issue between JTB and change. That's what proper indexing/timestamps are for. Gettier exposed much less familiar and/or commonly...
March 23, 2025 at 15:23
Clearly. Amongst other things, some consumer protection laws used to forbid predatory and other fraudulent financial business practices where otherwis...
March 12, 2025 at 21:50
For whatever it's worth... As a youth, I had a couple of recurring very unpleasant dreams. Someone told me that although I was sleeping, I had the abi...
March 12, 2025 at 21:22
Interesting that someone who purportedly does not want to "control any markets" guts legislation put in place to protect consumers from all sorts of f...
March 10, 2025 at 02:42
I love this thread. When I first started doing philosophy, I despised the historical uses of "necessary", because they discolored the readers' lenses,...
March 04, 2025 at 03:17
Interestingly enough, I agree with that. However, my reasons may differ from Rödl's, or I suppose the biggest difference may be methodological. Part o...
January 16, 2025 at 00:02
This has been an interesting read for me. Expressing how I see it would involve undermining the entire project. In order to do it effectively, the dis...
January 14, 2025 at 23:58
Yes. I deal with a number of people on a daily basis that do not seem to understand how worldviews form, grow, and evolve over time and/or how they wo...
January 11, 2025 at 18:02
The conversation you are currently having with Russell as well as the last few days' worth of discussion in this thread ought to make you aware. To be...
January 11, 2025 at 17:41
Indeed. I prefer "process", but probably because I'm trying to eliminate/avoid/exhaust "mental" without using it. :wink:
January 08, 2025 at 03:13
Unsurprising. I'm tired, and I may not have understood your objection in its entirety. I'm sure I do not grasp the depth of it. Nonetheless, I was ref...
January 08, 2025 at 03:08
Nice clarification. That helped me to understand quite a bit better how narrowly focused the scope of the claim at the heart of the OP really is. I ap...
January 08, 2025 at 02:48
:razz: I see. I wondered where you were headed. I didn't realize you were frolicking. Your example already showed a kind/species of thought that doesn...
January 08, 2025 at 02:38
Hey Banno! I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. Are you assuming that all thoughts could be sensibly prefixed with "I think"?
January 08, 2025 at 02:06
I second that!
January 08, 2025 at 01:57
:worry: The assumption of Kant's error has nothing to do with the parts you bolded. The mistake was agreeing with an error, and that agreement precede...
January 08, 2025 at 01:41
:smile: Sometimes we're thinking about propositions, utterances, statements, assertions, etc. Those are things too! :wink: Hi M!
January 07, 2025 at 00:32
Thought could be any of the three, depending upon the sort/kind/type/species of thought under consideration. So, the 'cleavage' is not so much 'opposi...
January 07, 2025 at 00:20
Pat is correct. I know this isn't what you're after, but... The underlying issue is an historical failure to draw and maintain the distinction between...
January 05, 2025 at 20:59
I agree but... Where does the need for having a concept of causality come from? Again, I do not find the notion of concept to be of help. Generally sp...
December 18, 2024 at 23:56
Of course there is more to any thinking creature than just the recognition/attribution of causality, but it seems to me that that process, regardless ...
December 18, 2024 at 23:49
Recognizing that the bowl is empty is not the same as recognizing that one's own belief about food being in the bowl is false. The former is about the...
December 18, 2024 at 23:35
Yes. That's part of it. There's also the transition between. There are also different kinds of languages consisting of different kinds of meaningful b...
December 18, 2024 at 23:09
Knowing where to get food is not the same as knowing that one's own belief is false. The claim was that walking away from an empty food bowl counts as...
December 18, 2024 at 23:04