2.1: The Path to Good Beliefs Runs Over Nothing

If people’s beliefs strengthen in the face of argument, then how do you reassess beliefs to arrive at the good ones?  Epistemic Nihilism. Destroy everything in your head, attacking from all angles with all other beliefs.  Throw beliefs at each other, they your soldiers and you their general.  Marshal them to war and pit them [...]

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A Bit More Conversation on the Church of Reason

Jormundgard replied to my (rather long) post about Conformity and Social Decision Making with a good point: I was a bit vague in my usage of certain terms, and that led to a lack of clarity as to what I was getting at with this whole “Church of Reason” bit.  I’d like to repost his [...]

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On the World of Discourse

I’d like to take some time to discuss the origin of the title of the blog: the World of Discourse.  While this obviously has a few rather mundane meanings, when I use the phrase here, I’m referring to a particular epistemological construct I developed in college, which I have since somewhat refined.

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