Re: Solidity is degree of justification (was: Mirror neurons at autopsy)
Elliot Temple <[email protected]>
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On Dec 27, 2012, at 2:25 PM, You Know Me <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 27, 2012, at 2:19 PM, Elliot Temple wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 9:47 AM, You Know Me <[email protected]> wrote: >>> 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 <[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". >> >> Now that's unproductive. >> >> -- >> Elliot Temple >> http://curi.us/ > > So you respond with another unproductive statement ? Nice one Elliot! A reflection of your genius, to say the least but I digress or maybe you need to. lol! > > All in good jest, Elliot and I'm glad your paying attention ! Criticizing a bad post is productive. (So is correcting a false claim, as this post itself has just done.) That's two unproductive posts and no contribution. Is everyone off moderation or something? I suggest he be banned if he won't repent. Or the new list policy explained that allows sarcastic insults like this.