... No one is actually a justificationist in the sense of that is how they learn stuff in their mind. Because one can't learn that way. It doesn't work. They...
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W.Taylor@...
Apr 1, 2011 7:04 am
... IMHO this is very misleading, and until you have said what "influence" is, not even a definite statement. The FTL "influence" of quantum entanglement is...
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W.Taylor@...
Apr 1, 2011 7:04 am
... So does fallibilism claim that NO statements we might ever make can be termed astronomically unlikely to be wrong? ... So then, what exactly IS the...
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W.Taylor@...
Apr 1, 2011 7:04 am
... Hear hear! A wonderful analogy! -- Beaming Bill ... This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program....
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W.Taylor@...
Apr 1, 2011 7:04 am
... Not altogether, see below. OC in jurisprudence it is called "retributive justice" rather than vengeance. ... There is a third. Long ago, many millenia ago...
... Apparently Popper would disagree with you about that, he thought he had been wrong about Darwin for most of his life because just before he died he said: ...
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W.Taylor@...
Apr 1, 2011 7:13 am
... Alas! I cannot access that. A pity, as it sounds interesting. ... I expect so. I imagine it observes that various pretty patterns in the visual and...
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Ammon Johnson
ammon.johnson@...
Apr 1, 2011 10:07 pm
... Except that if the probability of it working and continuing to work is so very low then it will fail the multi-versal requirement for knowledge which is...
... Popper's epistemology is a third approach. you didn't give any argument that there are no alternatives so there's not much to say. -- Elliot Temple ...
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Ammon Johnson
ammon.johnson@...
Apr 1, 2011 10:08 pm
... You've misunderstood what justification is. If you attempt to criticize something but fail that's not justificationism. ... PNC? If you've attempted to...
... what do you think non-sharp is if not diverse? -- Elliot Temple http://fallibleideas.com/...
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W.Taylor@...
Apr 1, 2011 10:08 pm
... Nor did he care about the effects of his words. ... TOUCHE' ! This is one of the most telling remarks in this whole debate! -- Wincing William ... This...
... Oh, I see. You're right that the parenthesised "(and true)" is confusing. It got there because I was trying to stress that I was focusing on one particular...
... There is indeed, the pleasure in making somebody we don't like suffer, pain for the sake of pain; but I said legitimate reasons and that is not a reason I...
... Sigh. I really don't want to get into this debate, and I promise I won't say anything after this because I don't want to side-track what you're ...
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Bruno Marchal
marchal@...
Apr 1, 2011 10:11 pm
... But when I ask you what you don't understand you eventually mention non standard idea in the field. In fact you confess that you know nothing in philosophy...
... But that's how you assay what the degree of intelligence your fellow human beings have, perhaps not just in answering questions (although that's what IQ...
... There is some truth in that but in my defense there isn't really a good word in the English language for what it is, but it's something and influence is ...
... Suppose there was a consistent and rational philosophy which said justificationism is a mistake, explained how to assert things without justification, and...
... It's ironic for me to say that someone else says silly stuff, b/c you think that I say silly stuff? Even though it's possible that they do and I do too --...
... You guys are so silly. Everyone makes blunders of unlimited size. That's fallibilism. It's one of DD's basic views. And you come here and make fun of it...
... I did not assume that. People learn stuff all the time, e.g. the what emails they read are about. So they do C&R. ... You have yet to provide some...
... I don't judge people from such a narrow range of questions as are on jeopardy. They deal with a wider range of situations. ... Because if they were...
... Huh? I wasn't expressing any criticism of the many worlds position, I was just giving an example of quantum weirdness. John K Clark [Non-text portions of...
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 Ammon Johnson <ammon.johnson@...> ... It doesn't matter how incredibly low the probability is, as long as its greater than zero and...
... Besides that Mrs. Lincoln how did you like the play? ... Being unwilling to embrace one of the most important scientific ideas of all time more than a...
