
Ep 129: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 7 ”A Conversation about Justification”.
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You Don't Know What Knowledge Is
In reply to warrell, in our present dologman, at no point do i need to talk about justified. This claim comes from the explanations provided by the relevant scientific theories. To the extent those explanations are good, it is right to rely on the predictions of the corresponding theories. But even then, that doesn't mean that it's absolutely true. If we want technology to be better, people have to understand the way knowledge is generated. Not merely in the rarefied areas of philosophy and science, but in engineering and technology, intrest everywhere in life.
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