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If what counts as properly basic belief includes the first ones, the rudimentary ones, the most simple and basic ones, then belief in God quite simply...

"Properly basic belief" can be construed in a myriad of ways. It is a name that is used to talk about a plurality of different things. This thread bea...

Yes. Philosophy done well is work... and quite often it is of the tedious variety. Witt's quip is perfectly applicable in situations where some belief...

Indeed. And... To state what your mouth is, you have to put it into a sentence with a subject/predicate form... Therefore your mouth has propositional...

To state what Mt Everest is, you have to put it into a sentence with a subject/predicate form. :brow:

It only follows that Jack has no beliefs. You and I both know that that's not right.

To state what a belief is... Belief does not require being stated.

Many others share this view... this use of the term "proposition". This is not the thread to criticize it, but it's wrong on several levels, including...

That's more palatable. Everything contrary to Trump's beliefs is a hoax to him. I would go even further and say that there have been many things he kn...

The only choices available were all against their interests.... Not sure if that can be attested to control and manipulation of information or just pl...

So people who like higher quality foods? :rofl:

Plenty of repeat business on Fox news... and some out of the president's own mouth. I have several Chomsky books. He's prone to take things a bit fart...

I would agree generally speaking about the obligation to keep one's word. I disagree that the fix for some not doing so is for everyone to not do so.

Calling it a hoax is to deny that it is a problem, and it doesn't matter who "their new hoax" refers to. The denial itself is the problem.

What's the point here? Is the argument something like... some people do not keep their word, therefore Trump can pull out of any and all agreements th...

Working together is being interdependent. Humans are, by our very nature, interdependent social creatures.

That's a gross oversimplification of a complex set of circumstances resulting from a complex set of agreements. Everyone ought keep their word. Not ev...

Where "such and such" is a statement. Statements are existentially dependent upon naming and descriptive practices. Jack has none. Jack has beliefs. J...

Maybe they - like everyone else in the world - realize that when someone enters into an agreement that they voluntarily obligate themselves to make th...

Or perhaps... just maybe... nearly everyone else in the world would like for Sanders to become president because he is much less likely to fuck everyo...

Then it's all about language use, and as a result of that and that alone... it's wrong. Properly basic belief - if those come first - is prior to lang...

You're conflating my report of Jack's belief with Jack's belief. He believes that he's about to be fed by you. That's my report. His belief does not h...

Ok. So Jack does not believe that he's about to be fed by you... ever? :brow: You ok with that?

A well informed electorate is imperative to any and all free and fair elections, particularly when we're talking about a representative republic with ...

This seems to be a malformed sentence, At best, from where I sit, it's a confusing way to use the terms. I think, based upon our past exchanges, that ...

Taxes are better understood, much better understood... ...as user fees.

It's a bit like being an American football player now involves wearing different equipment than 80 years ago. Still football players, just not the sam...

Sanders speaks to a very broad range of people across the board of ethnic diversity. Americans come that way, you see. Sanders speaks to all poor peop...

The 2020 US presidential election is not a foregone conclusion. To quite the contrary, I know many folk have a strong yet inexplicable disdain for the...

Are the foundational beliefs warranted? What about justificatory regress?

My name is... That is a tree. That is a cat. That is a banana. These are basic... right? Or are they?

Although it is quite clear that belief begins simply and grows in it's complexity, and is thus accrued in a way, I do not think that happens in a stri...

While I do not entirely disagree... This is about thinking about belief(reporting upon belief), not what belief itself is. Another consequence of gett...

Well, that's what's said about them anyway. In what way are they foundational? Is it a matter of existential dependency and elemental constituency, or...

Then again... both establishments, the RNC and the DNC very well may do everything they can to avoid a Sanders presidency. By the weights and measures...

Surely you're not really portraying Sanders in negative light... right?

It's primary season, and the DNC does not want Sanders. When he wins outright, he'll remove their wiggle room, and they will not let their dislike of ...

I do not think that Sanders would approve of the manner in which you argue in support of his platform. To be fair, I'm sure he'd scold me as well...

Not by my lights. Although, I agree that basic belief does not have the same sort of justification/grounding as statements of belief that are called "...

Something else occurred to me tonight, largely due to Un's participation... What if the notion of "basic" amounts to something like being foundational...

From the paper on pg.1(41) This exemplifies this issue I'm pointing out here. The conflation of belief and propositions. Besides that, even if we gran...

I agree that the status of a basic belief is an interesting question. However, knowing that requires knowing what beliefs are. The context of belief f...

The claim that properly basic beliefs are not necessarily(always) groundless causes a bit of confusion. Banno is right to point this out. If a belief ...

What is the bare minimum criterion for what counts as a belief? What do all belief have in common such that that's what makes them beliefs?

My own position is foundationalist, I suppose one could say. But I've not really seen a good criterion for a properly basic belief in the paper, becau...

Seems the paper and the thread are going to hinge upon what counts as properly basic, or basic beliefs... This, of course, requires first clarifying e...

Trumps financial ties to Deutsche Bank are currently being investigated. Some of them look like he is a participant in money laundering....

Honestly, aside from abortion rights and gun laws... there's little to no difference between the left and right as far as American politics goes... Be...

There are certain pieces of legislation that have led to the current wealth gap and all of the problems most everyone agrees on. Guess who fought hard...

Truth - as correspondence that is prior to language acquisition, and as coherence within language use - emerges within thought and belief. Thought and...