Comments on: Plantinga’s ‘Two Dozen or So’ Arguments for God: The Epistemological Arguments

By: Richard Carrier

Richard Carrier — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 21:51:29 +0000

In reply to praestans. Not necessarily. Both forms are valid for the sense of radiating a light. The rule that shone should be employed rather than shined (as in "shined a light on") when intransitive is not formally the case (this is admitted by most authorities: example; example; example; example).

By: praestans

praestans — Sat, 03 Feb 2018 01:06:19 +0000

surely, the sun SHONE /shon/. But I shined my shoes the other night.

By: Keith Douglas

Keith Douglas — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 21:56:00 +0000

I was reviewing what Kripke says about “Quus” again because I needed to review some philosophy of mind for another purpose. As far as I can tell it immediately reduces to a skepticism about “induction” (or rather learning from experience generally). Rule following is only mysterious if you think “rules apply all the way down” – and Wittgenstein’s whole point was that eventually things just “happen”. (Reasons are causes, but only some causes are reasons.) People who are baffled by this I usually point to the experience of computer programming.