• Average
    469
    I don't generally measure anything in life, I go by common sense and inference.Tom Storm

    To each his own I suppose.
  • Average
    469
    The fact that I can drive a car means I have knowledge of true and false when it comes to negotiating roads and traffic. If not, I would run into a bus or some other inconvenience.Tom Storm

    Based on our pragmatic common sense understanding of how driving works in a pragmatic world, a crash is always a possibility. So what?Tom Storm

    Correct me if I’m wrong but according to your own understanding of pragmatic truth a car accident would render your beliefs pragmatically false. That’s the only reason I said anything.
  • Tom Storm
    9.1k
    Correct me if I’m wrong but according to your own understanding of pragmatic truth a car accident would render your beliefs pragmatically false. That’s the only reason I said anything.Average

    I explained my view of this re-read it. I won't explain it again.
  • Average
    469
    I explained my view of this re-read it. I won't explain it again.Tom Storm

    I read your view of this, explain it again. I won’t re-read it.
  • Tom Storm
    9.1k
    You often ask questions and go on tangents when the answer has been given. Sorry bud. Done.
  • Average
    469
    You often ask questions and go on tangents when the answer has been given. Sorry bud. Done.Tom Storm

    Good riddance.
  • Tom Storm
    9.1k
    Good riddance.Average

    Take care.
  • Average
    469
    To assess familiarity, comfortability with (discussing, reading, hearing) the subject is the most telling signInvoluntaryDecorum

    What do you mean?
  • Agent Smith
    9.5k
    I don’t think it’s my job to edify anybody.Average

    Your job duty is to justify your position then.
  • L'éléphant
    1.6k
    You’re not really referring to a specific argument.Average
    I am speaking in general. What must be true if xyz is sound and valid -- certainty is true.
    Somehow, I've gotten tired of discussing JTB (justified true belief). It's been talked to death in another forum for years.

    :up:
  • Average
    469
    Somehow, I've gotten tired of discussing JTB (justified true belief).L'éléphant

    Well I suppose you can always discuss something else with someone else.
  • Average
    469
    Life feels like free choice, That'll do me.Tom Storm

    Idk. If you’re only interested in what “feels” true I don’t know why you decided to discuss the subject of what is actually true. I made it explicit that I was interested in how we know if we know something. I was not interested in feelings. I was interested in information and knowledge.
  • Tom Storm
    9.1k
    I was not interested in feelings. I was interested in information and knowledge.Average

    Nowhere did I say I am only interested in what feels true. You really need to read more closely.
  • Average
    469
    bro I’m literally going blind trying to read your arguments. I apologize if I’m fucking it up but that is not my intention. I spend way too much time looking at screens.
  • L'éléphant
    1.6k
    Well I suppose you can always discuss something else with someone else.Average
    Or you could exploit its nature and introduce a twist. That would be something.
  • Average
    469
    Or you could exploit its nature and introduce a twist. That would be something.L'éléphant

    Exploit the nature of what? What kind of twist do you have in mind?
  • Tom Storm
    9.1k
    No worries.

    What I wrote:

    The theme of freedom (where did that come from?) has never interested me. Life feels like free choice, That'll do me.Tom Storm

    Unpacking that, all I am saying is what people like Sam Harris have said - we may not have free choice, but it sure feels like we do. For me that will do given that I have no control about it.

    At no point did I say feelings are all that matter or suggest that knowledge isn't possible. Epistemology is a minefield of a subject.
  • Average
    469
    For me that will do given that I have no control about it.Tom Storm

    Fair enough.
  • Average
    469
    Epistemology is a minefield of a subject.Tom Storm

    It’s definitely not my favorite.
  • L'éléphant
    1.6k
    Exploit the nature of what? What kind of twist do you have in mind?Average
    I mean how else can you breathe life into JTB? Do you have an idea of how to revive this epistemological view?
  • Average
    469
    I’m not sure what view you are referring to. I’m not interested in reviving any doctrine.
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