Really nice and informative. Thank you for making these videos available for everyone on YT!

This is probably dealt with in the later videos but I feel like many examples and problems so far could have been fixed by thinking about the certainties of beliefs instead of knowledge. Having knowledge be a binary property seems to make it almost useless. In my opinion we can't ever *know* something but we can be either fairly certain or very certain or almost certain or not very certain at all. Here we could have all of the same debates about how can we be justified in our certainty levels or what does it mean to be 80% sure that Marx had a brother but these seem to be concepts that are much closer to the concepts we usually use while reasoning. For example if I remember that Marx had a brother but I don't remember where I learnt this from, I can be quite sure of this fact as in my experience usually when I have such a feeling, I turn out to be right. If it was the case that usually when I remember something but don't remember where I learnt it from, I could be quite sceptical of the information. This also makes the problems easier with "What if the clock was broken" or "What if the sheep was fake". I can't be sure that these weren't the case but *usually* those aren't the cases so I can be fairly certain that I saw a sheep or that clock is 2.00. However if it was usual that my clock was broken, I could learn that when I look at the clock and it says 2.00 I should just be fairly certain that the time actually is 2.00. Again, I feel like this is probably dealt with at some point but still wanted to write my thoughts about this here in case someone else is thinking about this P.S I really like this series and your other videos. Keep up the good work!

@jocr1971

23 күн бұрын

i'm just starting a read through of brian ellis' Rational Belief Systems. it's still early in the laying out of the book's plan, but i think it's heading in the direction of weighted certainty of belief as opposed to the 2 value truth condition of knowledge.

@ValtteriAurela

21 күн бұрын

@@jocr1971 I need to check that out

Thank you for these videos, they are great for someone like myself who is self studying after an intro course when I was at University. For this debate, I wonder what it would mean to have the answer given to us (from the future, or from an all knowing sage). I'm not even sure what form an answer would be, in the way that if we were to be given a theory of quantum gravity we could use it to make better predictions or new technology.

24:34 Thank god I'm not alone. I've always found the internalist-externalist debate kind of murky, insubstantial, and badly framed (assuming there's something to be framed). For example, the justification/reliability dichotomy. How the hell are they any different?

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