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There's nothing at all problematic about metacognitive endeavors which point out the simplest of details such as a true belief cannot be false; a fals...
March 07, 2022 at 06:35
Brilliant.
March 07, 2022 at 06:23
All propositions are existentially dependent upon language use. Not all belief are.
March 07, 2022 at 06:22
When an author is critiquing something other than what I've wrote, and/or something that quite simply does not follow from what I wrote, it is an irre...
March 07, 2022 at 06:19
An astute reader with a keen eye will surely note that the critique in the post prior to this one, while seemingly reasonable, particularly at first b...
March 07, 2022 at 05:39
Science has nothing at all to say about what we ought do.
March 04, 2022 at 02:50
All or some?
March 04, 2022 at 02:32
If all propositions can possibly be either true or false, and false belief cannot possibly be true, then propositions are not equivalent to false beli...
March 04, 2022 at 01:28
It only follows that the belief you ascribed to Jack is not Jack's belief.
March 03, 2022 at 05:35
The irony. At time t1, an individual capable of telling time wonders what time it is. Like all other folk who know how to read the hands of a clock, t...
March 03, 2022 at 02:17
At time t1, an individual capable of telling time wonders what time it is. Like all other folk who know how to read the hands of a clock, they look to...
March 02, 2022 at 04:50
And you're proud of your behaviour here...
February 28, 2022 at 05:24
A gifted shitshow consisting of a gross misattribution of meaning bordering on deliberate obfuscation... I've much more important matters to be involv...
February 27, 2022 at 18:21
This notion of "belief" cannot take account of language less, mistaken, and/or false belief. A mistaken creature's point of view does not - dare I say...
February 27, 2022 at 04:19
Cats sometimes believe that a mouse ran behind a tree... It makes no sense at all to me to say that the cat's belief has content that expresses the ca...
February 27, 2022 at 03:44
Much, arguably most, of the groundwork has already been offered, here in this very discussion...
February 27, 2022 at 02:49
Has nothing to do with failing to read the next few lines...
February 27, 2022 at 02:44
Maybe I am right if you do not. :brow: A true belief cannot be false. A false belief cannot be true. It is impossible to knowingly be mistaken. It is ...
February 27, 2022 at 02:41
Either works for me. I'm not picky about it. The only difference is that one is more general while the other(the one you prefer) is about a particular...
February 25, 2022 at 16:03
Which is all it takes to show how convention has been in error...
February 25, 2022 at 15:55
That question makes no sense on my view. :worry:
February 25, 2022 at 15:41
We cannot knowingly believe that a broken clock is working. :yikes: See above. There is no need for further explanation. I've more than adequately exp...
February 25, 2022 at 02:00
Well yes and no. Jack cannot knowingly believe "that broken clock is working" is true, because it is a contradiction in terms, necessarily false, etc....
February 25, 2022 at 01:56
Jack believes that broken clock is working. The above report is in proper linguistic form. It is accurate. It is true. It is impossible to knowingly b...
February 25, 2022 at 01:46
The sentence "That broken clock is working" is a contradiction in terms.
February 24, 2022 at 15:41
That's not true. You're mistaken. I'll answer whatever questions you like, so long as they follow from what I'm arguing or are just plain ole simple q...
February 24, 2022 at 04:54
Could you elaborate?
February 23, 2022 at 16:16
No, I'm not. No, it is not. You are conflating the content of my report with the content of Jack's belief. The content of Jack's belief are correlatio...
February 23, 2022 at 16:11
Logical notation? The form of belief attribution? "The logic"??? How can anyone establish what counts as acceptable and/or unacceptable attribution of...
February 23, 2022 at 05:27
The former includes propositions. The latter does not. While words are not propositions, on my view, the content of Jack's belief is not words either....
February 23, 2022 at 04:07
Sure it can adequately express a case of ignorance. I mean, it is impossible to knowingly believe that broken clock is working(treat this as if we are...
February 23, 2022 at 02:42
So you're saying that those words in quotes are the content of Jack's belief at time t1?
February 22, 2022 at 16:19
What does the word "it" refer to?
February 22, 2022 at 16:15
Okay, good. What is the content of Jack's belief at time t1?
February 22, 2022 at 04:03
If it were the case that, at time t1, Jack's belief was "a clock is working", then Jack's belief would be true, because somewhere at that time, a cloc...
February 22, 2022 at 03:58
What is the content of Jack's belief at time t1?
February 22, 2022 at 03:38
Belief that does not consist of propositions consists of other things... trees and mice and spatiotemporal relationships between them... for example. ...
February 22, 2022 at 03:34
Not all belief amounts to believing that p.
February 22, 2022 at 03:19
If any of that or all of that and possibly more leads you to believe that the content of Jack's belief cannot be a broken clock, in large part at leas...
February 22, 2022 at 03:11
What does that have to do with the content of Jack's belief at time t1?
February 22, 2022 at 03:00
To each and every detractor:What, in the fewest exact terms as possible, is the content of Jack's belief at time t1?
February 22, 2022 at 02:56
You're not interested in discussing how belief that a broken clock is working does not have propositional content. Stick around and learn something.
February 22, 2022 at 02:54
The answer has been given over and over for the last ten or so pages. Believing that a broken clock is working is not a proposition.
February 22, 2022 at 02:50
We have the ability to use propositions to talk about Jack's belief, as well as language less creatures'. It does not follow that the belief is propos...
February 21, 2022 at 16:02
You've just attributed true belief to Jack. Jack's belief is false.
February 21, 2022 at 15:37
What seems to be an underlying issue here is whether or not it makes sense for me to say that at time t1, Jack believes that a broken clock is working...
February 21, 2022 at 04:29
I'm not even sure what that is supposed to mean, so I hesitate to answer either way. The matter under contention was whether or not all belief content...
February 21, 2022 at 00:57
It's about belief. Get that wrong and you have gotten all sorts of things wrong. I could not care less about the failings of convention. It just so ha...
February 20, 2022 at 18:56