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I går bestilte jeg en t-shirt med disse citater på ryggen. "Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of our language." -Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations…
Re: Beliefs and probabilities 1
Opening post. My response: I think some clarification is in order. The thesis in question is this: (T1) If S believes that p, then S believes that the probability of…
Assertion and inference rules
Possible Worlds quote: “In the second place, the concept of conjunction can be conveyed without using any sentence connective whatever. One way - indeed one of the commonest of all…
The many ways
So, I am on my way home a Sunday in May and when I get into my apartment I find that my roommate has left his bike helmet on the…
Sidewalk god…
Emil: There is an infinite number of possible Gods. Without evidence every guess is as good as the others or nearly so. The chance of guessing the right God is…
An appeal to skepticism about reasoning
Unaided and aided reasoning Humans reason about many things. Some things are more complex than other things. The more complex a thing is, the more probably it is that one…
Physical impossibility and ought implies can
I was watching The Unbearable Lightness of Being when a scene suddenly made me realize a possible problem with regularity theory of physical laws and the ought implies can principle.…
The dispositional account of belief and an infinite number of beliefs
Quote from The Web of Belief “Rather, believing is a disposition that can linger latent and unobserved. It is a disposition to respond in certain ways when the appropriate issue…
Quote: Bertrand Russell
"Philosophy, throughout its history, has consisted of two parts inharmoniously blended; on the one hand a theory as to the nature of the world, on the other an ethical or…
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