Carinthium comments on Skepticism about Probability - Less Wrong

-8 Post author: Carinthium 27 January 2014 09:49AM

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Comment author: Carinthium 04 February 2014 01:01:58AM 0 points [-]

Mostly right. I accept the theoretical possibility of a self-evident belief- before learning of the Evil Demon argument, for example, I considered 1+1=2 to be such a belief.

However, a circular argument never is allowable, no matter how wide the circle. Without ultimately being tracable back to self-evident beliefs (though these can be self-evident axioms of probability, at least in theory), the system doesn't have any justification.