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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
The Gettier Problem: True Justified Belief without Knowledge.

Again, I think the problem with True Justified Belief is the statement, I am factually justified.  To know I am factually justified, I must know that my belief is true, yet I use this justification as proof that the belief is true.  I justify the truth o…[Read more]

Jake:

I agree but the takeover with ridiculous pretexts is a bad precedent.

Agreed. Trump is at least as schizoid and hysterical about drugs as every previous Administration since Wilson and it’s Harrison Act.

On one hand, Trump accuses Venezuela of being the source of Fentanyl, when the actual source is China via Mexico.

Then he blows up…[Read more]

Jake:

Well, Maduros and Chavez before him ran shithole regimes that enslaved their own people, so it’s hard to sympathize with them. Whether American boots on the ground or Venezuelans rising up themselves (my choice) is the better option is another story.

Trump is deluded if he thinks oil will pay for his operation, since the companies won’t…[Read more]

Reg:

World of Woo: Everyday life……

Trying to force dogs and cats to go vegan is a good way to get the SPCA and Animal Control turned on a pet owner, and rightly so. And Child Protective Services will also turn on parents who try to make their youngsters go vegan, again, rightly so.

Here, virtue signaling with food is not only playing with you…[Read more]

@regthefronkeyfarmer – but I never said the truth had to be justified – just “true”.  Anyway I like your definition of understanding better – understanding the factors that make something happen, and everything has a causative structure.

I understand that the concept of truth is not simple and is hard to define precisely.  If something is l…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Religious justification is more powerful than anger or hatred and that is how ordinary people become instruments of atrocity.

I actually think that extremist religion and politics can justify “righteous” anger and hatred, blotting out all compassion or respect for human rights.  That’s because morality has an…[Read more]

Understanding – apprehending the truth – is an aspiration or goal.  We can’t guarantee to reach an adequate understanding of something.

Understanding is true belief.  False beliefs are either redundant or harmful because delusion is always unsatisfactory.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Univ. of Oklahoma punishes instructor for failing Christian student who didn’t do the assignment.

She wrote a right-wing rant instead.  I think that the student, Samantha Fulnecky, will never be able to get a normal job now.  But there’s plenty of work spouting off on YouTube, playing the victim and pretending to be…[Read more]

Jake,

In Professional Life: A survey found 80% of Jewish doctors in Canada have faced antisemitism at work since October 7, with some expressing they no longer feel they belong in Canada.

Maybe Canadians will try curing their ills with a poultice of Maple Syrup and Back Bacon with Moulson Golden as anesthetic. Can’t run a single-payer health…[Read more]

Robert,

So just say that you never read anything I’ve ever said without saying that you’ve never read anything I’ve ever said… And use a lot more words to do it too. 🙄

I haven’t voted since 2004, so I have no responsibility for the multiple messes of The Little Bush Boy, Barach Hussein “The One” Obama, Uncle Joe “Movin’ Kinda Slow at the…[Read more]