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You people are great listeners... Insert Mr. Green here... I want that emoji back!!!

Here's where empiricism and logic fails... The conflicts that matter most are the moral/ethical ones... What ought we do given the way things are. Fir...

I know... right? I have made serious allegations about some logic(paraconsistent, I think is what they call it?), and yet Harry has neglected those al...

I have no such problem. Logic does presuppose truth. That's not a problem unless we forget to 'keep it in mind', so to speak. You do realize that thos...

When faced with competing valid explanations for what's happened and/or is happening, it is always best to err on the side of the one with the fewest ...

:smile: As has been already mentioned... we first have to agree on what it is that we're talking about. It seems clear to me that there are different ...

Logic isn't all it's cracked up to be anyway... Some logic is still being used despite the fact that it's little more than an accounting malpractice o...

One who knows nothing at all about using logic can tell whether or not all sorts of simple statements are true. So, if one such individual already kne...

Under review... The above are explicitly stated reasons that existed in time prior to your statement above. In your defense, I did not let you know ab...

I've offered at least three already. Address those.

You're establishing a pattern of arguing with your own imagination... strawmen abound.

Where truth is whatever we say it is, because we said so... What about the things that exist in their entirety prior to our naming them? What role do ...

Feeling safe is not being safe, by the way... One can be told the 'right' sorts of things to believe and feel that they are safe, and yet not be.

Looking. Logic can help us determine how well grounded the opinion is by asking for the reasoning behind the opinion. So, in that way, logic can help ...

Indeed... Here's a few common sense lines of thought regarding that... Names have referents. Naming practices pick individual things out of this world...

The question is whether or not there is some universally applicable reliable method for determining which opinion is true when we find ourselves being...

For those leaning on logic, please remember this... The sole aim of logic is to preserve truth. The sole aim of logical notation is to take proper acc...

Generally speaking... In order to choose better, one must perform a comparison/contrast between the opposing views. Not just any comparison will do he...

Introduce a timeline. Brave at this time, not at the other. A is not both brave and not-brave at the same time.

Sometimes when there are competing opinions, both sides include some true stuff, but arrive at starkly different opinions regarding say... the way thi...

The rules of correct inference(logic) cannot tell us whether or not some statement or other is true. If the aim is to determine which of two competing...

One has to know what sorts of things can be true and what makes them so. That's the easy part. The hard part is remembering that after inadequate lang...

You quoted my response to you and compared it to another's response to you. In doing so, you managed to completely avoid what we were talking about.

While the above is a true report of some, it is not a true report of all... uses of "common sense". The notion of "common sense" when used to classify...

I think that that's exactly wrong in that it is true, but totally irrelevant. Either can say what they want about whether or not they are thinking log...

Logic presupposes truth.

I suggest getting your vision checked.

That's just a misreading altogether. It's also very compelling evidence - to me in particular - that you've not read much of my writing. :smile:

Which statements are true and what makes them so? How's that? :wink: Same solution.

What is that, exactly? :brow: I'm curious since you invoked those terms in that order.

One can be certain that there is a cup in the cupboard without any further consideration whatsoever regarding the possibility of being mistaken or ano...

That's no discussion I want to get involved in. It devolves into arguing about which definition is best when faced with competing opinions about the m...

Are so and so being effected/affected in 'disproportionate' numbers? The data may lend some weak support to charges and/or implications of race discri...

I would advise caution regarding 2a and 2b... but that does not take anything away that matters.

Ah drake... That deserves permanent preservation! Brilliant. Beautiful. Clear. Concise. Germane. Practical. The agreement resonated within while readi...

I would think that knowing what sorts of things can be true and what makes them so is of the utmost relevance, significance, and/or importance to anyo...

Not so much. The very idea that we can identify something bears the burden of explaining what that particular thing is. But what does it mean to talk ...

Change it to which opinions or parts thereof are true.

I did because it is implicit in using the fact that we cannot be certain about everything as reason or justification for taking it a bit further and i...

If there is a cat on the mat, then the statement "the cat is on the mat" is true. Of that, I am absolutely certain and very well ought be. Agree?

This is confused, and unnecessarily so. My typing is an event, an occurrence. That's what's happened and/or is happening. The report thereof is what w...

If you mean to say that - based upon the data showing that the universe is expanding like an air balloon - we can confidently surmise that it came fro...

Yes, that is exactly right.

If the aim is to place equal value upon each individual human, simply because they are human. If it is best to offer all others(strangers, in particul...

We cannot be certain about everything. It quite simply does not necessarily follow that we ought not be certain about anything.

It is true that Donald John Trump is not a reliable source of information regarding the covid19 virus. I am absolutely certain of that.

It is true that I am currently typing on my computer keyboard. I can be absolutely certain of it. That is most certainly true. Thus...

Does it? I would think that neuroscience - if it shows anything - would show that we do both, because we do. If anyone or anything sayd that we do one...

Best to discard that belief in search of much better. There are plenty.

What you suggest is the epitome of what counts as being untenable. If you do not draw a distinction between anything, there is no language use. The be...