Okay, so what are Robin and Hal advocating, procedurally speaking? Let’s hear it from them. I defined the Modesty Argument because I had to say what I thought I was arguing against, but, as said, I’m not an advocate and therefore I’m not the first person to ask. Where do you think Inwagen went wrong in disagreeing with Lewis—what choice did he make that he should not have made? What should he have done instead? The procedure I laid out looks to me like the obvious one—it’s the one I’d follow with a perceived equal. It’s in applying the Modest procedure to disputes about rationality or meta-rationality that I’m likely to start wondering if the other guy is in the same reference class. But if I’ve invented a strawman, I’m willing to hear about it—just tell me the non-strawman version.
Okay, so what are Robin and Hal advocating, procedurally speaking? Let’s hear it from them. I defined the Modesty Argument because I had to say what I thought I was arguing against, but, as said, I’m not an advocate and therefore I’m not the first person to ask. Where do you think Inwagen went wrong in disagreeing with Lewis—what choice did he make that he should not have made? What should he have done instead? The procedure I laid out looks to me like the obvious one—it’s the one I’d follow with a perceived equal. It’s in applying the Modest procedure to disputes about rationality or meta-rationality that I’m likely to start wondering if the other guy is in the same reference class. But if I’ve invented a strawman, I’m willing to hear about it—just tell me the non-strawman version.