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Comment author: [deleted] 03 December 2015 10:16:43AM 0 points [-]

You'll find more errors in your thinking seeking critics than supporters, and so your questions are good questions.

Using personal preference or personal intuitions as priors

Egoism fits that description. I wrote the book on it! "Confessions of a Failed Egoist" has all the answers. Read more at...

Tinyurl.com/theuniqueone

Comment author: buybuydandavis 09 December 2015 10:24:30PM 0 points [-]

...Egoism fits that description.

In what way?

Given your url, I assume you're well aware of Stirner. I don't think his egoism fits that description.

Comment author: gjm 03 December 2015 06:41:50PM 0 points [-]

Do you want to give us, say, one or two paragraphs that might help readers here judge whether following your not-even-actually-a-link is worth the trivial inconvenience it poses?

Comment author: ChristianKl 03 December 2015 10:44:28AM 0 points [-]

Egoism fits that description.

How so? Would you say that the sun arises tomorrow because you have an egoistic intuition that it does? Do you believe that personal preference shouldn't just be used to decide whether X or Y is better but also whether X or Y is true?