Re: Solidity is degree of justification (was: Mirror neurons at autopsy)

On Dec 27, 2012, at 7:04 AM, David Deutsch wrote:
> On 25 Dec 2012, at 23:58, Elliot Temple <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:13 AM, David Deutsch <david.deutsch-LR/[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> >> currently called 'justificationism', namely that knowledge is that which can be justified as true, or likely to be true, etc.
> > 
> > That is not what justificationism means. Justificationism is the
> > concept that ideas have an amount/degree/weight of justification
> > (epistemic status, aka confirmation, support, authority, probability,
> > etc), by which we should judge them.
> 
> for truth
> 
> > Ideas with more
> > justification/weight/evidence/etc are deemed better than ideas with less.
> 
> Deemed to be truer, more likely to be true, more likely to contain more truth, etc. That is the mistake.
> 
> But that does not mean that ideas cannot have any non-binary attributes. For example they can be longer or shorter to express, depend more or less on mathematics, be more or less relevant to a given problem, be more or less original, more or less useful -- and (as I have said) easier or harder to vary as explanations (relative to a given state of background knowledge).

Now That's "True". 

- SM