
Ep 162: Steven Pinker’s ”Rationality” Chapter 7 ”Hits and False Alarms” Part 1
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Are We Going to Know With Absolute Certainty?
Pico: I just don't find it's going to be illuminating for my particular audience You will see that the errors are coming at us Thick and fast. He begins really well With a concept of uncertainty but quickly falls back into let's say Manifest truth errors. So here he is endorsing a form of fallibleism Will he continue with this attitude? Oh, we'll come to see that he doesn't quite and that's a shame. We can never know with certainty. This is why probabilities is inherently subjective Different people place different values on how certain they are about something so pico has begun Reasonably well reasonably well in his opening paragraph.
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