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2021-12-12 at 7:32 AM UTC in knowledge is bullshit
Originally posted by Meikai this makes me irrationally angry
"knowledge is justified true belief"
okay but how do you know the belief is true? how do you know it's justified? any definition of knowledge that requires knowledge (of what is True, what is Just) feels... just... inherently wrong. knowledge is a belief that "works" heuristically. if you try to pin down knowledge, you will fail. -
2021-12-12 at 7:24 AM UTC in knowledge is bullshit
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2021-12-12 at 6:23 AM UTC in Moomoo
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2021-12-12 at 6:22 AM UTC in Butt control rayhot
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2021-12-12 at 4:34 AM UTC in Why are fish and chips MORE expensive on the east COASThonestly the quebecois want to separate from canada but i feel like the newfies have a better claim. they practically speak a different language too, and at least they live on an island. just let 'em bois go, bud. they aren't us.
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2021-12-12 at 4:29 AM UTC in Why are fish and chips MORE expensive on the east COAST(tbf to the chippie in question "stay where you're at 'til i come where you is" or some shit is like common newfie slang? maybe? something to that effect. fucking weirdos, m8. just a strange people innit.)
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2021-12-12 at 4:27 AM UTC in Why are fish and chips MORE expensive on the east COAST
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2021-12-12 at 3 AM UTC in knowledge is bullshit
Originally posted by Lanny I mean truth is usually not the controversial criterion for knowledge, it’s kinda just in there for completeness. The problem, as you’ve probably read, is around the relationship between justification and truth.
On the other hand though, I think it’s worth at least considering if we could be said to know untrue things without reducing knowledge to mere belief. E.g. we might say Newton knew about the motion of bodies even if Newtonian physics is now understood to fail to account for some phenomena.
Which I guess is to say we might usefully take knowledge not to be a binary relation between subjects and true propositions but a quantity measuring the efficacy of a subject’s beliefs in predicting or manipulating its environment.
I think the Newton example is totally reasonable. Smol brain as I said so I can't into formal logic, but that much checks out using plain ol' common sense.
His knowledge was incomplete, but knowledge nonetheless.
Smart people are still dumb, even if I'm usually dumber. -
2021-12-12 at 2:53 AM UTC in Create a superheroSeneschal Samurai-san
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2021-12-12 at 2:50 AM UTC in knowledge is bullshit
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2021-12-11 at 10:42 PM UTC in knowledge is bullshitReading the wiki page on Gettier (like I said, my brain is smooth and smol) and like... kinda laughing. Fuck, smart people are dumb.
"Smith knows that it rained today"
A subject S knows that a proposition P is true if and only if:
P is true
Literally right out the gate with "you can know P is true by knowing P is true". -
2021-12-11 at 9:23 PM UTC in knowledge is bullshit
Originally posted by Lanny JTB is kinda BTFO'd at this point
I'm sure it's BTFO'd in a way my tiny little pea-sized smoothbrain will never quite appreciate, but I'm glad the big wrinkle brains finally got around to figuring that out. Pretty sure a tweet that... just... casually mentioned JTB was what prompted this thread. -
2021-12-11 at 9:14 PM UTC in knowledge is bullshitI don't even know what I meant by this. I don't think I even knew what I meant by this when I posted it.
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2021-12-11 at 9:13 PM UTC in knowledge is bullshitI don't remember making this thread and I wasn't even that drunk when I made it.
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2021-12-11 at 4:01 AM UTC in knowledge is bullshiteverything is heuristics
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2021-12-10 at 6:57 AM UTC in It's coming. Glider Nukes.like, the greatest generation? perhaps worthy of our undying veneration. their greatest sin was arguably giving birth to boomers. fuck off. boomers gave birth to everything they complain about. society is shit now? guess whose fucking job it was to safeguard society, retard. you dumb bastards let everything fall to shit in your endless pursuit of self-glorification and instant gratification, and you have the absolute gall to complain about how selfish and shitty society has become. jesus.
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2021-12-10 at 6:54 AM UTC in It's coming. Glider Nukes.
Originally posted by Quick Mix Ready we don't have that drive we had in 1941. sacrifice your metal for the war effort. cut back on rations and food. buy only basics.
good fucking luck in the 21s century of "Fucking die already boomer"
t. boomer born in the 1950s/1960s who not only never sacrificed anything for any war effort, but lived in arguably one of the most prosperous periods (for the average american) of US history
and you wrinkly pieces of shit wonder why we want you to fucking die already -
2021-12-10 at 6:32 AM UTC in “Christians” are the fakest peoples on this planet
A lot of Muslim dudes around this guy's age probably think he's a complete twat. To be fair, he *is* a complete twat. Why? Because the zeal of a convert is unrivaled. This is not a phenomenon unique to Christianity. This isn't even a phenomenon unique to religion. Converts are almost invariably coming from a place of instability - most people who find god do so during a time of personal hardship. When someone has had a hard, harmful, unstable life, and they've done something to escape that, they invariably get really fucking judgy about people they perceive as embodying aspects of their past life. Probably helps them tbh, as a counterexample to illustrate to themselves how much they've changed for (in their estimation) the better.
You see this mentality every time a bummy nigga like me gets a shitty job flipping burgers. Literally the last kinda nigga on Earth who should talk shit, but immediately they start talking shit about all the bummy niggas who need to get their acts together. Same thing with a convert. -
2021-12-08 at 11:20 PM UTC in WE ARE ALL JEFF HUNTERim not jeff hunter tho
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2021-12-08 at 10:59 PM UTC in Omicron terrifies the world's media
