RE: Street Epistemology - Practice
November 30, 2017 at 3:19 pm
(This post was last modified: November 30, 2017 at 3:23 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Hopefully, practicing to speed it up so that you don't get hit by a slow moving bus when you try it in the "street".
This is just my opinion..but when it comes to epistemology, an apologist is always going to prefer dragging it out over resolution. The reason is simple. "Unresolved" is a more tenable rationalization for holding some absurd belief than "resolved and absurd". If they can't claim truth, they'll settle for maybe not false.
Non answers, half answers, endless qualifiers and constant reversals, all of these things are better than terse and prompt summaries of ones actual thought process, from that POV.
This is just my opinion..but when it comes to epistemology, an apologist is always going to prefer dragging it out over resolution. The reason is simple. "Unresolved" is a more tenable rationalization for holding some absurd belief than "resolved and absurd". If they can't claim truth, they'll settle for maybe not false.
Non answers, half answers, endless qualifiers and constant reversals, all of these things are better than terse and prompt summaries of ones actual thought process, from that POV.
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