I'm simply saying: "you can't get there from here." I'm not justifying faith here. I'm pointing out the difficulty of legislating a set of rational rules that you can then build your world on.
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Replying to @Gregg_E_Miller
Could you please provide some evidential support for your argument so we can evaluate the probability that you are right? :)
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Replying to @Plinz
I haven't made any argument. I am challenging your three absolute propositions to see if you have an epistemic right to them. I think you are taking a pragmatic position, am I right?
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Replying to @Gregg_E_Miller
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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Replying to @Plinz
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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Replying to @Gregg_E_Miller
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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Replying to @Plinz
Yes, I agree. I think environment does play a role in making us psychologically more or less inclined to a particular position. But I think the tweet that accompanied this one indicates that you are also working out a rational argument in defense of reason. Is this correct?
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Replying to @Gregg_E_Miller
I am not a priori committed to reason, I just have a model of the space of results of picking the alternatives.
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Replying to @Plinz
Are you then a posteriori committed to reason or would you be agnostic with respect to this as you are with respect to the existence of a real world?
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Replying to @Gregg_E_Miller
Yes! For instance, if it turns out that we get better predictions by assuming that we don't live in a world with definite ground truth (like a David Lynch movie), and revelation through telepathic tree stumps works better, we may have to drop reason.
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Of course we may have to use reason to figure that out.
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