No, it is likely to be false because there is a high probability that at least one part of it is imperfect.
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Authoritarian is only bad in the first place because it's an irrational way to treat ideas: It's prioritising some ideas over others not because of their merits, but some dogmatic decision.
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The goal of projecting authority is not to improve models but behavior.
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Not sure I understand. But the assumption epistemological categories aren’t normative isn’t right. We should reject authority, but that’s because of rules in actual epistemology. Namely: there are no authorities in the quest for knowledge so reject claims made on that basis.
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An important part of this is conjecture about the mechanism of progress. Namely, when progress is/was made, it had nothing to do with the existence of falliblists. It is/was always due to an approach that searches for errors and tries to correct them regardless what ppl believed.
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I think normativity and epistemology are very interrelated. You can't understand one without the other.
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To understand that your mind is spawned inside of a feedback loop, you don't need much epistemology. Epistemology seems to be mostly important when you are already invested into a broken notion of normativity and need to prove your way out of it.
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Not only does authoritarianism involve the authority being arbiter of what we know (e.g. a church state), but it prevents error detection and correction. E.g. dissidents are silenced.
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