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Knowledge must be true. Presuppositions need not be. Assumptions are sometimes different than presuppositions. Again, this is clearly laid out in the ...

My apologies then. No offense meant. seems to be explaining the notion fairly well... if by that I mean in line with RGC.

Squabbling over the whether the terms "belief" and "presupposition" pick out the same thing is rather dull, especially when we're talking about RGC's ...

So, here we can see that for Collingwood, presuppositions are kinds of thought not expressed in one's statement. However, to get a good understanding ...

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I will. It's proven to be necessary...

That's nonsense Janus. The paper is proving interesting enough for me to set aside my position on human thought and belief as a means to understand it...

This is the general groundwork for the book/essay.

This presupposes that logic precedes thought.

This presupposes that RGC claims otherwise. He doesn't. Absolute presuppositions are but one part in the field of study. Read the paper.

Yes.

For those interested in or also drawing this comparison... It makes a connection between RGC's absolute presuppositions and Witt's hinge propositions....

I've no choice given the sheer complexity of the essay... :wink: I'm still just beginning to grasp his framework, and am currently still studying the ...

I'm in the middle of cutting and pasting from the essay as a means to provide an acceptable and accurate portrayal of RGC's notion of absolute presupp...

The essay is very nuanced. I'm impressed by much of it, and find myself refraining from critiquing it yet, although there are a few problems within it...

Yes. Trigger happy and tired last night. The more I read, the more I realized that I needed to study this paper in order to better understand.

I'm studying his framework of the differences between absolute and relative presuppositions...

This is as well... prop. i. Every statement that anybody ever makes is made in answer to a question.

Reading it as we speak actually... Found this particularly troubling... ...for it flies directly in the face of actually learning what clotheslines ar...

Yes, they. The candidates under current consideration... you know, the individuals capable of forming, having, and/or holding beliefs. All beliefs are...

What is this a test? Are you exhibiting the dreadful behaviour that you're charging others with? I never said that a belief can be anything other than...

It speaks to both the believer and the belief that they form, have, and/or hold. Divorcing believer from belief eliminates the very ability to take pr...

Absolutely presupposing the above is something that cannot happen unless one can first say that. Absolutely presupposing the above is one result of an...

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If absolute presuppositions are claimed to be the unquestioned hidden basis of ones worldview, then they exist in their entirety prior to being named ...

What taxes are spent on is important. Sure. The issue is that there are many many things that need to be done and there is not enough money to do it a...

Taxes are necessary for government and society to function... in the States anyway. Best thought of as user fees. The collective idea that taxes are b...

Gibberish.

I've no idea.

I know, right? I mean can you believe such people? :smirk: They are almost as stupid as those who believe that words are completely powerless...

I'm more interested in how it happened. Where did these ideas come from?

Ouch!

Roger that!

For folk like me who are working on a computer that is pretty much useless aside from being able to access this particular site, you'll have to provid...

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"Discern" presupposes that meaning already exists. "Attribute" does not. :wink:

It's about the effects/affects of free speech, and responsibility for behaviours of listeners... such as the recent insurrection attempt. Some claim t...

Let's talk about what we're doing when we say that the linguistic turn is over... :rofl:

:smile: Get used to it with Possibility.

Freemasonry is alive and well... not 'was'... a cult? I'm not so inclined to say that.

Glad we're clear on that then.

I'm less inclined to agree that people always have a choice, but I think we both agree that folk bear responsibility for what they do. The insurrectio...

There's seems to be a problem with holding a speaker responsible for the effects/affects of their speech if we also claim that the listener acted on t...

I would wager on him escaping the country first...

The power of the written word cannot be understood by looking at the physical components. We cannot measure the power of the written word in terms of ...

Indeed. Elemental constituency doesn't seem to be considered... yet.

I find no reason to say that all of the different ways are on equal footing aside from being about the same thing. The significance of each descriptio...

Fair point. Cannot something be accurately described in more than one way?

Your position is self-contradictory.