RE: No reason justifies disbelief.
March 22, 2019 at 11:38 am
(This post was last modified: March 22, 2019 at 11:39 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Yeah...fuck it, these guys had their shot.
I'll be running along under the assumption that the "real" is the empirical, whereas the "real+" is anything other-than empirical. I'll start with an argument that's probably the weakest form of the real+ but one that's widely regarded as an argument that any nominally rational person in the real camp can accept.
It's called the intuition thesis. I'll start by reversing the characterization above, even. Intuition is what's real, and empirical verification of intuition is real+. There are things that we can know by intuition, and further..there are things that we can then deduce from those intuitions. We can know, for example..that our idea of a manticore includes the idea that it has a tail..even if we've never seen a manticore. We can know that if it doesn't have a tail, it isn't a manticore. The intuitionists manticore has a tail even if he's never seen one, and seeing a manticore and that it has a tail is an additional empirical fact.
This could be simplified even further - we can sometimes guess and get it right.
How are we doing so far?
I'll be running along under the assumption that the "real" is the empirical, whereas the "real+" is anything other-than empirical. I'll start with an argument that's probably the weakest form of the real+ but one that's widely regarded as an argument that any nominally rational person in the real camp can accept.
It's called the intuition thesis. I'll start by reversing the characterization above, even. Intuition is what's real, and empirical verification of intuition is real+. There are things that we can know by intuition, and further..there are things that we can then deduce from those intuitions. We can know, for example..that our idea of a manticore includes the idea that it has a tail..even if we've never seen a manticore. We can know that if it doesn't have a tail, it isn't a manticore. The intuitionists manticore has a tail even if he's never seen one, and seeing a manticore and that it has a tail is an additional empirical fact.
This could be simplified even further - we can sometimes guess and get it right.
How are we doing so far?
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