Comment on Reverse engineering of belief structures

Wed, 03 Sep 2014 03:50:47 GMT

I understand exactly what you're saying, but the qualification is divergent from your initial statement, from which this discussion arose, and to which you returned in the second paragraph cited above:

"we shouldn't really care how someone formed their beliefs when evaluating the veracity of a claim"

A condition of evaluating the veracity of an utterance is to register the utterance as intelligible, for which the aforementioned considerations to context are necessary, i.e. 'how someone formed their beliefs'.

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