{"id":4270,"date":"2018-09-03T12:14:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T12:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/03\/the-jury-is-still-out-a-silly-sentence-when-used-by-philosophers\/"},"modified":"2018-09-03T12:14:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T12:14:58","slug":"the-jury-is-still-out-a-silly-sentence-when-used-by-philosophers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/03\/the-jury-is-still-out-a-silly-sentence-when-used-by-philosophers\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Jury is Still Out&#8221;: A Silly Sentence When Used by Philosophers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">One sometimes comes across &#39;the jury is still out&#39; in technical philosophical writing. A philosopher might write that &#39;the jury is still out&#39; on some question, for example, whether the triviality objection to presentism is sustainable.&#0160; It&#39;s a silly thing to say.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">It is first of all obvious that philosophical inquiry, though in some ways similar to a courtroom proceeding, is unlike the latter in a crucial particular: solutions to problems, if they are arrived at at all, are not arrived at by decision.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">It also falsely suggests that a definitive solution to the problem is in the offing. But we all know that that is false. No substantive philosophical question has ever been answered to the satisfaction of all competent practitioners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Or can you think of one?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One sometimes comes across &#39;the jury is still out&#39; in technical philosophical writing. A philosopher might write that &#39;the jury is still out&#39; on some question, for example, whether the triviality objection to presentism is sustainable.&#0160; It&#39;s a silly thing to say. It is first of all obvious that philosophical inquiry, though in some ways &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/03\/the-jury-is-still-out-a-silly-sentence-when-used-by-philosophers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;The Jury is Still Out&#8221;: A Silly Sentence When Used by Philosophers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-metaphilosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}