Yes. I think that it is. I'd say (paraphrasing the Oxford Guide to Philosophy) that 'belief' is a mental state, with a proposition as its object, in...
How MR's questions are answered probably depends on whether we are talking about propositional knowledge or 'knowing how'. My reply below will...
I have questions about "discernment of right vs wrong". Is there really anything objective to be discerned? If so, how is it discerned? It isn't...
I just tried it and I don't think that I "see" or "hear" the numbers at all. But 'hearing' is a lot closer than 'seeing' and maybe I should have...
One thing that this thread has purposely and by design failed to discuss is the fact that the fighting in Gaza and the undoubted suffering that...
I agree. I like Carl Sagan, though I sense that some of the things he said were rather intuitive. (His famous "billions and billions" as the music...
Right. Reliability isn't the same thing as infallibility. Reliability doesn't require that one be correct in every instance. It just means a...
Perhaps part of the problem in this thread is that that everyone is trying to understand what Tegmark is about through W4U's interpretation of him....
Yes. Assuming that we are talking about organized movement skeptics, and not skeptics in the broader sense, I think that generally speaking that's...
My guess is that W4U is arguing (perhaps without realizing it) for a currently popular idea in the philosophy of science called Structural Realism....
Yes, this particular disagreement has a long history on this board. I remember battling with Kittamaru and Bells years ago over this very point. They...
Right. I thoroughly agree. Eyewitness experience isn't infallible. It obviously can be mistaken and sometimes it is. But that being said, it's...
My first three words in the words you posted were "I wouldn't either". So I'm not exactly 'equating' them. I was just suggesting that statements of...
I wouldn't either. But it is kind of apt, since the foundations of mathematics are probably just as murky as the nature of UFOs/UAPs. How do we know...
He's just somebody who disagrees with you. You seem to be totally intolerant of that. Intead of agreeing to disagree, and ideally giving some reasons...
What interests me the most in these discussions are the boundary issues: What is the distinction between science and not-science? If it's true that...
I don't dismiss the likelihood of non-human hominins still existing out there. I see it as a remote possibility. But I think that in this Colorado...
Man (a hunter?) wearing a ghillie suit? Whatever it was, the video suggested it moved like a human. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghillie_suit...
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