(December 29, 2015 at 7:42 am)abaris Wrote:You can't know anything about reality based on HP.(December 29, 2015 at 7:36 am)Delicate Wrote: A good way to cash out the difference between your view and mine is that mine sits neatly into the established model of knowledge and belief in epistemology.
Well, it doesn't sit well with knowledge. If my knowledge and belief were based on Harry Potter, I wouldn't know much about the real world, or would I?
That's obviously what you try to sell here. And that's not what gets you the least bit of credit here or outside of your little circle of like minded individuals.
That possibility is ruled out by definition on a basic epistemic framework.
But hey, I'm noticing a correlation between how confused one is and how eager they are to attribute malice.
So that's nice to learn.