Will_Sawin comments on A Defense of Naive Metaethics - Less Wrong

8 Post author: Will_Sawin 09 June 2011 05:46PM

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Comment author: Will_Sawin 23 June 2011 01:33:37AM 1 point [-]

Obviously, this doesn't prevent me from saying that I know something without an argument.

Comment author: Peterdjones 23 June 2011 02:30:48AM 0 points [-]

You can say that you are the Queen of Sheba.

It remains the case that knowledge is not lucky guessing, so an argument, evidence or some other justification is required.

Comment author: Will_Sawin 23 June 2011 02:47:21AM 1 point [-]

Yes, but this is completely and totally irrelevant to the point I was making, that:

I will profess that a statement, X, is true, if and only if "X" is encoded in a certain manner in my brain.

Yet "X is true" does not mean "X is encoded in this manner in my brain."

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