novalis comments on Meta-rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: novalis 10 October 2012 04:02:48AM 1 point [-]

I didn't vote on this article, as it happens.

This post is another one of the ones I was talking about. I wasn't really paying attention to where in the sequences anything was (it's been so long since I read them that they're all blurred together in my mind).

There are certainly strong arguments against the meaningfulness of coincidence (and I think the heuristics and biases program does address some of when and why people think coincidences are meaningful).

Comment author: Tuukka_Virtaperko 10 October 2012 01:49:43PM -1 points [-]

The page says:

But this doesn't answer the legitimate philosophical dilemma: If every belief must be justified, and those justifications in turn must be justified, then how is the infinite recursion terminated?

I do not assume that every belief must be justified, except possibly within rationality.

Do the arguments against the meaningfulness of coincidence state that coincidences do not exist?