Oof. I’m gonna be thinking about this for a while. What a great question.https://twitter.com/Evolving_Ego/status/1485385291254747138 …
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Also, one idea that was very important in the ancient world, and that I think is important now / a lot of people implicitly recognize, but that a lot of contemporary philosophy misses, is that we should aim not only at good beliefs but also good explanations. [3/N]
Actually I briefly mentioned this recently, at the end of a discussion of temporal bias: https://www.natemeyvis.com/writing/on-temporal-bias/ … [4/N]
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For a lot of ancients, belief itself was inherently deficient, and to be replaced by some combination of (i) suspension of judgment, (ii) hypothesis, (iii) various kinds of knowledge, some of which are more like "grasping explanations" than "taking true things to be true." [5/N]
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Anyway, let me know if you want more references etc. Good questions! [6/6]
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