"P" is true IFF P. — Banno
But now how would you go about cashing that proposition out? — apokrisis
That's the trouble with pragmatism. It does not address questions of truth. It pretends they are all questions of justification. — Banno
He wouldn't know he is only hallucinating? Then is he doubting or not? — Caldwell
youve taken what should be a common curtesy towards Sam as the instigator of this thread and turned it into an excuse for your not starting a thread Of your own. — Banno
No amount of clarification of terms will overcome that fundamental untranslatability of language. — Joshs
And then in complementary fashion, the brain is also designed to "doubt" - apply its attentional resources - whenever this general backdrop of belief fails to predict the world in suitable fashion. — apokrisis
Whenever something doesn't seem quite right, there is cause for doubt. — Metaphysician Undercover
But how could you know something wasn't quite right unless you were making a prediction that it would be otherwise in some sense? — apokrisis
Crucially, our basic certainties are not subject to rational evaluation; for instance, they cannot be confirmed or disconfirmed by evidence and thus they would be non-propositional in character (that is to say, they can be neither true nor false). Accordingly, they are not beliefs at all; rather, they are the expression of arational, non-propositional commitments.
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