Iran has used "proxies" (often actually Iranian forces) to carry out 170 attacks on US bases just since the start of the Gaza War. There were also Ira...
Only partially. The fact is that Iran, due to the type of foreign policy it pursues, has been involved in combat with the Taliban, significant combat ...
If one night of air strikes or exchanging some artillery fire makes a "war" then Iran is apparently at war with Afghanistan, Pakistan, Israel, the US,...
What is the point of me exchanging several long PMs on this where I clarified this point to you in detail and asked you for clarification in each of t...
There is also to consider the Hegel-Fukuyama-"Whig history" descriptive element to consider. More effective epistemologies lead to greater economic, t...
The difficulty, given my preferences, is that, while much of later 20th century philosophy is a rejection of the "view from nowhere," it still continu...
That's not really how I intended it. I was trying to remain as broad as possible. Hence, not using "true" but the cumbersome "true/correct/acceptable/...
Looking at these recent responses, I don't think it's useful to set up a dialectical between "contextlessness" as a "view from nowhere/everywhere" on ...
I'm really not sure what is supposed to be disingenuous here. It seems to me that if a principle holds with no imaginable counter examples, it's a sol...
So there are no examples where just making up your data consistently leads towards knowledge, but it still isn't a valid epistemic principle to not ju...
IDK, seems like grounds for a principle to me. Can you give an example where just making up your data consistently leads towards knowledge? I would ac...
If the way the world is requires that epistemic communities follow certain standards to avoid false conclusions, that sounds a lot to me like the grou...
Sure, and many similar moves led to things like the approval of drugs that led to birth defects, toxic chemicals in kid's drinking water, etc. That in...
Asking a question is now misrepresentation? I didn't get what the point of the example was. I'm not talking about a final theory, merely basic princip...
Sure. Did you have a principle in mind in between? It's not a binary. It's only down to Brownian motion if one denies any determinant principles that ...
I don't think that's accurate. The position strikes me more as a sort of virtue epistemology in search of clear virtues. It isn't against argument and...
Indeed. It's sort of a weird mix of both though. Because of the washing out of cultural norms and institutions by capitalism and liberalism, and liber...
Does foundationalism and completeness lead to authoritarianism? I've considered that it might be precisely the opposite. Consider that one almost neve...
To be fair, by this logic, it wouldn't necessarily be bad to simply lie about one's position for advantage here. :cool: The rest of this seems unrelat...
Historically, these examples were resolved by an appeal to principles considered valid across the lines of the presumed disciplines though. That is, a...
Sure, but the fact that some particular process led to man's desire for truth as such doesn't preclude the fact that man can now desire truth for its ...
Re Kant, as mentioned before, I didn't have space to really take on many thinkers in depth. But here is why I think Hume is a good model: - The anthro...
Yes, we are. Intellect in the older faculty psychology refers specifically to the understanding of universals, of form. It's not the same thing as mem...
Are you seriously advancing the epistemic position that no one is ever wrong but that the two options would be: "yes I agree," and "I don't know?" "My...
"Curiosity killed the cat," right? There is a sort of anthropological/metaphysical question of if animals can "know" as in, intellection, but obviousl...
No, I would imagine the decision-making process is that they had a window of opportunity to act while Iran's proxies were largely defeated and when th...
Also, if you want to make an appeal largely to "reasonableness," this would suggest something like a virtue epistemology (which would be my preference...
That makes sense. I was thinking "binary" in terms of 2, because this seems to be the objection. I might add: 5. If one claims standards are wholly un...
I had considered you to be laying out criteria for correctness there because you wrote: And then gave your overarching standards for those reasons. Th...
We probably did. An important distinction is efficient causes as contingent, temporal linear series versus as hierarchical causal series. The former i...
First, the obvious: This is still saying some positions aren't true/correct. To say "all positions are true or undecided, and at least some are undeci...
Banno, you obviously know the answer to the question, you're using the correct term. It isn't claiming that it is both true and false (contradiction),...
So a decision made for no reason at all isn't arbitrary? "It isn't 'anything goes.' Why don't some things go you ask? I can offer no reason/principle/...
What do you mean by undecided? Do you mean "we don't know" or do you mean "Bin Laden was neither the mastermind of 9/11 nor not the mastermind of 9/11...
This statement? But this is a misreading. I did not write "either each narrative is true/correct or it is false,' or even "either each narrative is tr...
I don't think I suggested anything remotely like this. Is this in reference to wisdom? The point I made there was very simple: a contentless, vacuous ...
Sure, but you're objecting to the tone, not the content. But the tone is intentional because I am trying to show a problem here, which is that your st...
Whose the knower? An individual man, or mankind? It seems to me that the natural numbers must be prior to individuals, since they are already around a...
Jaegwon Kim has a series of monographs that are widely considered devastating for the idea of strong emergence given certain presuppositions (roughly ...
@"Wayfarer" pointed out this too. I agree that it's the wrong way to put it. That's what I should have written, "sentences lack intellects," and the m...
Sort of a common problem in these responses, the critique is invalid because if it was valid some sort of rigid, infallible epistemology would have to...
Where do you see your preference for dissection playing in here? Right, many of histories most bitter wars are ideological, so clearly debate can coll...
That's a fantastic quote. I'll probably reuse it. It gets at a common mistake which is that if something is always filtered through something else (e....
There was a very long running debate over whether terms signify concepts in the mind (Aristotle) or whether they signify things (through a triadic sem...
The point isn't that our existing criteria are everywhere universal, certain, and immutable. It's that they have to be criteria. But I think this fram...
How is it uncharitable? I copied and pasted the phrases. I get that we don't always "know it when we see it," but we sometimes do. (Yet such a claim s...
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