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My claim is supported by the evidence. That's what the questions were about. Plato's is supported by logical possibility alone. There are no examples.

You claimed that we ought not trust our senses but rather our intellect. I claimed it was impossible.

May still be far out ahead of my skis, but I think this classified document situation is much bigger than the information released thus far.

So, you separate the intellect from the senses by virtue of positing a mind(presumably of God) and then tell me that my claim that senses precede inte...

I personally believe that employee owned companies are better frameworks for a variety of reasons. However, not all people make good business owners. ...

I was thinking more along the lines of her notion of acting in one's own self-interest preceding all other reasons to act.

I've always wondered how anyone in their right mind would believe that logically possible worlds could tell us anything at all about the sort of truth...

Plato's principal message amounts to setting an unattainable criterion. The intellect follows from the senses. The senses are primary. The intellect i...

To the owners to do with as they please. The reason employees do not have a say in where the profits go is because they are not owners.

Belief need not be judged to be either true or false. True and false belief existed in its entirety prior to our awareness of it. Standard of truth? W...

Yes. It really is. We need not pretend that it is not convention for all of us to say of a book that it is not red, even if it is convenient to admit ...

Are you saying that a primate community that uses specific vocalizations as a means to signal the presence of specific predators is not language use, ...

Mediation is not performed by language. Language is incapable of mediating. We mediate. Mediation is performed by us. We are creatures with agency. La...

Open admission of an equivocation of terms fallacy?

No agency required?

Language does those things?

Where's the Collingwood fan at? There is an absolute presupposition amidst us.

Does language mediate human thought?

In case you need a little help on where you need to be looking... The proof for that is demonstrated by the way you attribute agency to language. Agai...

Okay. Replace "symbolizes" with "signals" and the argument that that bit was excised from still stands strong. You need to address it along with all t...

So, any and all attribution of such thought to non humans is anthropomorphism at work. I agree there. Not all language use involves using meaningful m...

I suggest you reread the post. What you ask for was already given.

That's not true. I know when my cat wants treats. She behaves in certain ways. She will even lead me to the food bowl. She will sometimes sit in silen...

You asked about other animals using language. I offered an example. I do not believe that you do not see the relevance. It's certainly not the only on...

Logical possibility alone does not warrant belief. It is a measure of coherence/consistent terminological use/lack of self contradiction... nothing el...

If A is existentially dependent upon B, then B is necessary for the existence/emergence of A. Possible world semantics is fraught.

I agree.

Well, some species of primates use specific vocalizations as alarms for specific predators sighted in the immediate vicinity. It's also my understandi...

Well at least we agree that belief about the future cannot be true... :nerd:

We need scientifically astute philosophers and philosophically astute scientists in order to arrive at a philosophically and scientifically respectabl...

Strangely enough, I'm in complete agreement with you here. Belief about the future goes from prediction to knowledge when it becomes true, and from pr...

I agree that - in the overall bigger evolutionary picture - anthropomorphism was inescapable. I disagree that it remains so to this day.

It's in line with Dennett's view.

Infallibility is unnecessary. The belief you've attributed to me directly above is something I do not believe. Red herring. The belief you've attribut...

Very well put.

Not interested. Was curious to get your take on that quick down and dirty summary, but evidently you're not interested. So be it. Be well.

Did you read the rest of that post? I generally do not align with Meta.

I do not share your pessimism. It's not fait accompli, regardless of whether or not you poison the well. It does not follow from the fact that we are ...

Is it hard? Seems straight forward to me. Gettier is attempting to take account of another's belief(granted, the other is a fiction borne of Gettier's...

As did Gettier when invoking entailment to go from "I have ten coins in my pocket" to "the man with ten coins in his pocket".

Pretty sure that release was prior to the Mar-a-lago search. I just wondered if there was any conncection between Trump's penchant for stealing classi...

Thanks. That's sounds like what I remember seeing only once mentioned, then forgotten.

No.

I suppose I could make the broader point now. Perhaps the reason you do not share my optimism regarding avoiding anthropomorphism is because you have ...

Earlier I asked how you/we avoided anthropomorphism. You basically questioned whether or not we could. I claimed that we can in both principle and pra...

I've no idea.

There have been an extremely unusually high number of American agents murdered or missing since Trump left office. Trump illegally took the kind of hi...

Do you not understand that understanding what sorts of thoughts are exclusive to humans and what sorts are not is how to avoid anthropomorphism?

The question you ask presupposes that I meant something other than what I wrote. I did not. What I wrote is plainly understood exactly as it is writte...

Which ought tell you something. That's not something I would or have said, nor does it follow from anything I would or have said.