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Even in that case, the speaker cannot believe both at the same time.

There are two belief statements in question here. "It is raining outside" and "I do not believe it is raining outside". They cannot both be believed a...

I'm discussing the belief statements, because that's how the self-contradiction and/or incoherency is found and understood.

We are talking about a single speaker's assertions/statements. All statements, when sincerely spoken, are belief statements. The two beliefs in questi...

There are two belief statements. The contradiction is there.

Sincere speakers believe the statements they make. A sincere speaker believes it is raining regardless of whether or not they prefix the statement wit...

In the account of those two belief statements. The problem is the conflation of belief statements and propositions(statements examined in isolation fr...

That one is.

What have I said that leads you to believe that I've made any conclusions about you as a person, aside from noting that the idea of "white privilege" ...

If you're sincerely saying that it is raining, then you believe it is raining. If you believe that it is raining, then you cannot believe that it is n...

Why do we need a link that makes it impossible to sincerely say "It's raining outside" if we do not believe that that's true? Belief presupposes truth...

Seeing how we're talking about the absurdity of particular belief statements, and the two are contradictory, and it is impossible to believe both at t...

"It is raining outside" - when and if spoken sincerely - is spoken by a language user who believes that it is raining outside. When spoken insincerely...

Because that is what makes it incoherent and/or self contradictory when one claims both at the same time.

"It is raining outside but I do not believe that it is raining outside" consists of two completely different claims that have completely different sub...

Red herring.

When one does not believe that it is raining outside, they cannot also believe themselves if and when they say otherwise, despite the fact that the be...

I think I agree with the latter part. There are two statements at hand. Each with it's own focus, meaning, and/or truth conditions. The former stateme...

Read enough to be pleasantly surprised... Struggle to grasp how you've arrived at the belief that discussions of "white privilege" are not helpful.

Yes. That claim needs amended somewhat.

Funny you should ask. Remember the struggles I went through coming to acceptable terms with Gettier's paper? The solution is drawing and maintaining t...

One can say whatever one wants to say about their own past mental ongoings. To your point... One can offer a report of past events captured on video. ...

That page was completely absent of any particular posts clearly attributed to Judaka. There were none. So... Do black lives matter to you?

If one misuses verb tense. It was raining, but I did not believe that it was.

Statements are statements of belief, assuming sincerity. Thus, one who thinks, believes, and/or says "It is raining outside" cannot also think, believ...

Well, some certainly do not. Some do. Thus, I'd temper the claim above while generally agreeing with it. What's been clear here... from my vantage poi...

That is well worth unpacking though, for it sheds much needed light upon the subject matter. One historical issue is the all or nothing approach. Some...

Or perhaps... how it always has been, still is, and will continue to be... 'determined'.

Not only is it common to feel like one is not allowed... they are actually not. I'm a prima facie example. Academic philosophy still works from a piss...

A sixty to one hundred thousand dollar loan for a philosophy degree is a financial death sentence.

Like walking black at night, possessing a counterfeit twenty dollar bill, or lying asleep in bed?

Needs unpacked. Rests upon drawing and maintaining a meaningful distinction between what counts as a "mind derived structure" and what does not. That ...

Changing the subject doesn't change the question. I'm puzzled here. What's so bad about the question? It's not an implied accusation, like when asking...

I'm getting a sense of frustration about the topic coming from your words. No one's asking for white people to beat themselves over the head. Rather, ...

What grounds the refusal to answer?

Do you not know how blacks have been historically treated?

Would you want to get treated the way blacks in America have been and still are, in many ways, being treated?

Questions aren't the sort of thing that can be honest or dishonest. It's a serious question. Do you have some issue answering it?

Compelling argument against placing too much value upon personal liberty/freedom/rigged individualism.

Serious question here... Would any one of you like to be treated in the exact same way as blacks are known to be treated by police and the criminal ju...

My apologies. I would question that claim myself... Open mouth, insert foot. Should have read more carefully than I did.

Isaac is perfectly capable of speaking for himself, but since you answered... So what? I mean, that's not even in question here... is it? What differe...

Because that's what's often said in situations of parting ways, not the beginning of conversations. "Hello" is a greeting, and it is not always an app...

The meaning of a word consists entirely of mental correlations drawn between the word(language use) and other things. Hence, the different meanings/ac...

Isaac is being a dick.

Are you serious? Do you need to see it? Have you not already? Have you been living under a rock? You're being a dick to the OP for no reason at all. I...

I think that that 'exception' is not one. Animal rights activists are themselves long entrenched in human flourishing, otherwise they'd not be comfort...

Very nice. I appreciated that input immediately upon reading it. It felt right. It made sense. It did not pose any issues of incoherence and/or self-c...

Soundness alone is sorely inadequate. Not all sound arguments are on equal justificatory footing.

Call the Green Apple bookstore in San Francisco, California. If you're lucky, they'll have something in their rare books collection. A few years back ...