Posted this Eggplant section as background for my reply to @vervaeke_john’s latest letter to me, which is about the central role of relevance in meaning:https://letter.wiki/conversation/209#letter_808 …
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The problem exists in reverse as well. "Pascal's mugging" arguments (e.g., for why we should intensely focus on this or that alleged existential risk) begin by saying, in effect, "consider the Spanish Inquisition."
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But the scope of things we might focus on in that way is unenumerable. The "Pascal's mugger" has simply chosen one to hobby horse.
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> Problems you could not reasonably have anticipated will be visible. To say this in a way which makes the task of formalizing even more difficult: "Problems you could not reasonably have anticipated will make themselves known to you."
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“The Spanish Inquisition”: rationality’s relevance problem. Unknown unknowns are unenumerable, so logic cannot work as advertised. (It’s not altogether useless, though!)