Vaniver comments on The Useful Idea of Truth - Less Wrong
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The actual belief is "This thingy which determines my experimental results is internally consistent and the rules governing it are time-invariant."
Where are your experimental results? Where are your beliefs? If they aren't the same thing, how can you compare them?
And finally: What would you expect to see if the thingy which determined the results of your experiments didn't have the qualities you ascribe to it? Try to avoid putting the question a meta-level up; my conclusion is that there is no evidence which doesn't support the premise that what I call reality is capricious and transient- but that if it is, there is no change in expected outcome from any decision I can make.