@EdmundGriffiths This seems to belong into the mechanics of your Logic of Belief Systems.https://twitter.com/Plinz/status/1052626806950518784 …
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Hmmm there's an element of truth to it, although of course it's their most distinctive ideas rather than their worst. To put it another way: how much emotional energy are you going to put into arguing for a position that everyone you've ever heard of already agrees with?
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Replying to @EdmundGriffiths
I understand
@Plinz hint that bad ideas are most suitable as distinction. So nobody else has them by chance.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Not sure there's much basis for that. In any event I wouldn't want to introduce "badness" of ideas as an analytical criterion
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Replying to @EdmundGriffiths @zerology
I found it hard to express it well in a tweet. I did not mean "bad" in the ethical sense, but in the sense of "very hard to justify to a neutral party based on generally known facts and universally acceptable reasoning".
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Ok, but it's not very easy to identify which beliefs meet that test. I'm not sure I can tell which of the things I believe are least convincing to a hypothetical neutral observer; much easier to tell which are most distinctive, ie actually disbelieved by people I encounter
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Replying to @EdmundGriffiths @Plinz
Hm. I don‘t expect this to be a criterion usable from the inside of an ideology.
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But it's people inside the ideology who are supposed to be identifying their worst / least convincing ideas so as to promote them; what I'm saying is they prob can't identify those, but they can certainly identify their most distinctive
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Do you think that having an ideology is incompatible with having sound epistemology?
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No, of course not
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Replying to @EdmundGriffiths @zerology
In that case, it should be totally possible for an adherent of an ideology to recognize which ideas are mere totems and which are intrinsically sound.
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