Sat 20 Mar, 2010 02:31 pm - I don't understand how you can be certain of a deductive inference. They either stand on premises which have not been demonstrated deductively, or else are circular. (view)
Fri 19 Mar, 2010 06:39 pm - [QUOTE=kennethamy]Yes, those are certainly necessary conditions of knowledge. But they need not be sufficient conditions of knowledge.[/QUOTE]
True. The "Gettier problem", at least,... (view)
Fri 19 Mar, 2010 06:32 pm - [QUOTE=kennethamy]Certainly only true beliefs are knowledge, but that does not mean that knowledge is only true belief. A lucky guess is true belief, but it is not knowledge.[/QUOTE]
Which is... (view)
Fri 19 Mar, 2010 06:08 pm - [QUOTE=GoshisDead]Philosophy at its roots is the same thing as evangelism, the dogmatic adherence to the "critical thinking", "rational thought", "question everything"... (view)
Fri 19 Mar, 2010 05:54 pm - I take it to consist in trying to promote a metaphysical belief the promoter is unwilling to ever give up. These beliefs are usually held for normative reasons: the individual cannot imagine living... (view)
Fri 19 Mar, 2010 04:47 pm - A proposition is true insofar as it corresponds to how things are. That seems a solid enough explanation of truth. As far as the relation between knowledge and truth, I would say a belief has to be... (view)
Fri 19 Mar, 2010 03:53 pm - As far as the philosophy of consciousness is concerned, I'd say [I]David Chalmers[/I] is the top dog. It seems like every other paper cites that guy. (view)
Fri 19 Mar, 2010 03:19 pm - In any case, I would say it should be welcomed. Without doubt, there's no wonder; and who wants to live without that? (view)
Thu 18 Mar, 2010 08:44 pm - [QUOTE=jeeprs]it is clear that the brain is nothing like a digital storage unit with a 1:1 relationship between concepts and objects. Whenever you think, many different neural networks in the brain... (view)
Thu 18 Mar, 2010 08:25 pm - I can't help but imagine a device designed to scan a brain and determine if the chemical synapses are [I]just so[/I] as to represent the possession of knowledge, and this brings to mind a... (view)
