hyporational comments on Mainstream Epistemology for LessWrong, Part 1: Feldman on Evidentialism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: hyporational 20 November 2013 12:40:48AM *  0 points [-]

Why are you failing to distinguish between "P" and "a person claiming P"? They are distinct things.

I'm not, I know they're distinct things. It seems to me you misundertood me. What's with the tone?

And there's no reason anyone needs a "perfect map" to talk about truth any more than a perfect map is needed to talk about snow being white.

I know that.

Comment author: nshepperd 20 November 2013 01:16:40AM 0 points [-]

So if you agree about that, why are you saying things like

If our p 0.9 proposition coincides with what the world is actually like, then we must assume someone has a 100 % accurate model of what the world is actually like to make that claim.

How is the "if" connected to the "then" of that sentence? Your thinking isn't making any sense to me.

Comment author: hyporational 20 November 2013 01:23:06AM 0 points [-]

That quote shouldn't make sense to you, and it's not my thinking. Keep in mind I'm not endorsing a notion of truth here, I'm questioning it.

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