Talk:Münchhausen trilemma

message: So how did this philosophical term come to be associated with Baron von Münchhausen? Nothing in the article (as it stands at the time I write this) explains this association. --llywrch (talk) 19:02, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, could someone please explain the origin of the first half of the notion!weekeepeer (talk) 10:28, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why Münchhausen?!? 

message: I suggest renaming this page to Agrippa's Trilemma after Agrippa the Sceptic. Spirals31 (talk) 22:50, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Agrippa's Trilemma 

message: I dont understand how _five_ tropes work out to be a trilemma...
:Yeah, that didn't make sense. Anybody care to improve on this new and only marginally better verson?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.108.190.115 (talk) 00:50, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trilemma 

message: Isn't this basically the same as Godel's incompleteness theorems? 86.150.214.95 (talk) 01:27, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Not really. Godel's incompleteness theorems posit (basically) that no formal system is able to completely describe itself in terms of it's own axioms. This posits that certainty (as a property of propositions) is logically impossible. Godel is a theory about the properties of formal systems; this is a theory about the nature of proofs. I.e., Godel doesn't say that nothing can be proven in a given formal system, this does. 24.243.3.27 (talk) 23:08, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Godel 

message: Am I a terrible person for wanting to add "says who?" tags to every statement in this article?  Or "citation needed" to the citation links?
On a more productive note, should we actually incorporate this idea as an example?  Demonstrate that, though we cite our sources here, what ensures the veracity of the cited source?  In other words, "What is our source's source?"  — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheAmbsAce (talk • contribs) 10:14, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recursion (n) - See "Recursion" 

message: Can we have a reference the character Sheldon using this as a form of argument in the television program The Big Bang Theory? - 124.191.144.183 (talk) 16:00, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Are there any reviews of the episode which can be cited as a secondary-source reference? Of course, we have the episode itself, the primary reference, linked here. Wbm1058 (talk) 15:29, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Big Bang Theory

message: "One example of an alternative is the fallibilism of Karl Popper and Hans Albert, accepting that certainty is impossible, but that it's best to get as close as we can to truth, while remembering our uncertainty."
Did Popper ever assert that a theory had verisimilitude? I thought he was all about 'explanatory power'.98.150.246.242 (talk) 11:15, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source for this? 

message: I am not a professional philosopher but I did read some Popper (and others too). He maintained that scholars use language in a way that non-specialists can understand, and indeed this is a critical issue. It explains ideas to a broader audience, while exposing content more easily to criticism. This appears very important in philosophical and scientific discussions. In this Wikipedia article I missed an actual explanation (in a step-by-step manner) how the story of Munchhausen relates to the trilemma (circular, regressive and axiomatic argument). I was unable to come up with an edit myself, so maybe someone with the necessary skills can come up with such?
Ehanzal (talk) 11:05, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I added my own explanation, though I am also not a professional. Does it look satisfactory?Mrperson59 (talk) 17:06, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Explanation for the trilemma actually using Munchhausen's feat missing 

message: Hasn't there been forward progress on this, from e.g. model theory? One has non-standard models of axioms, and one has forcing lemmas.  the possible stances are not just coherentism or foundationalism or constructivism, its a bit more subtle than that.  67.198.37.16 (talk) 02:39, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: You can add all that to the article if you provide verifiable reliable sources that support it. Bright☀ 05:41, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  model theory, universal algebra?