RE: Belief without Verification or Certainty
May 7, 2022 at 12:14 am
(This post was last modified: May 7, 2022 at 12:15 am by Neo-Scholastic.)
Seems like you are pondering the area of human experience bounded on one side by "being right for the wrong reasons" and self-fulfilling prophesies on the other. And wondering, perhaps, if such things count as knowledge in a philosophical way...Gettier problems, etc. Not sure if you can translate the concepts between the two worlds.
Personally, I think human beings "know" a lot more than we think we do dispite the fact that the means by which know is not transparent to us. The idea that we can even "know" about our cognitive biases tells me more about the robustness of our epistomological ability. I say this because I think there is a very big difference between "folk" knowlege, narratives, and various academic ways of parsing the world of experience. I contend that each epistimological strategies has its own advantages and disadvatages.
Personally, I think human beings "know" a lot more than we think we do dispite the fact that the means by which know is not transparent to us. The idea that we can even "know" about our cognitive biases tells me more about the robustness of our epistomological ability. I say this because I think there is a very big difference between "folk" knowlege, narratives, and various academic ways of parsing the world of experience. I contend that each epistimological strategies has its own advantages and disadvatages.
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