quen_tin comments on The Dilemma: Science or Bayes? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: quen_tin 23 September 2010 09:40:38PM -1 points [-]

I did not claim that my experience has a subjectively priviledged ontological status. This is your interpretation. I meant it has a subjectively priviledged epistemological status.

Comment author: Perplexed 23 September 2010 10:44:42PM *  0 points [-]

In the great grandparent, you wrote

my experience is the only thing I can assume as real

Perhaps you use the word "real" differently than I do, but it sounded to me as though an ontological assumption was being made. And that you were then extending that private ontology-of-experience to everyone else by a further assumption.

I'm happy to let you be an empiricist who is epistemologically cautious about what you can know beyond personal experience. I'm less happy to allow you to limit what can exist to that which you can know. As Eliezer argues out in the posting, Occam's razor, properly understood, does not provide you a justification for this.