meditation answer to “What rule could restrict our beliefs to just propositions that can be meaningful, without excluding a priori anything that could in principle be true?”
Rule: that we continue to use the words true and truth to describe if something corresponds to reality within a wider context of prediction, experimentation and action, and not solely observation. In this case we expand the senses of perception to include rational experimentation as part of how we evaluate true or not true.
The weird part about this is an underlying assumption that real... (read more)
meditation answer to “What rule could restrict our beliefs to just propositions that can be meaningful, without excluding a priori anything that could in principle be true?”
Rule: that we continue to use the words true and truth to describe if something corresponds to reality within a wider context of prediction, experimentation and action, and not solely observation. In this case we expand the senses of perception to include rational experimentation as part of how we evaluate true or not true. The weird part about this is an underlying assumption that real... (read more)