Three rules of epistemology that should be taught at school: 1. Knowledge does not come from authority, but always from evidence, and evidence is very hard to get. The only tools to get evidence (including what it actually supports) are reason and scientific inquiry.
Without an argument, you don't have a case, I think. And I cannot take a pragmatic position, without having derived it (personal issue, but seems philosophically consistent too)
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I'm interested in where people get their epistemology more than in what particular epistemology they choose. This has been an interest of mine for a long time.
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Personally, I probably have a brain that is naturally disinclined to obeyance (even toward myself). I also grew up in an atheist world but with inconsistent teleological metaphysics (East Germany), so I saw myself forced to reject external epistemological offerings.
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How did you derive the position that you can have knowledge without authority? I guess what I'm asking is why did you choose the more optimistic realist position rather than the more pessimistic anti-realist position?
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I actually didn't, I am reality agnostic. Reality is best explained as a bit that my mind uses to tag those representations that it considers to be the best predictors, but I do not have ontological faith in the existence of an external reality.
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