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Paul Thagard on cognition, consciousness, misinformation, balance

Thing in itself

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Is Inference Cognitively Different From Inference?

I think there's lots of interconnections or some overlap, but you have to take into account the limitations of human minds. In logic based epistemology it was standard to believe that everyone believes all the logical consequences of their beliefs. We don't have infinite minds and so we need to take into consideration what our brains operate how minds operate. Another problem with some approaches to Epistemology is probability theory which can be a useful tool in scientific and medical areas. The best mechanisms available for calculating probabilities namely based networks are computationally intractable. So I think that a lot of the abstractions that come out of the logic tradition just won't work because they go beyond human capacities

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