I suspect that you are leaping to the idea of “infinite regress” much too quickly, and also failing to look past it or try to simply “patch” the regress in a practical way when you say
No. I mention the practical patch right after : epistemies.
The remarkable magical thing about humans is not that we can construct epistemies, the remarkable thing is that humans can walk, make eye contact and learn things from it, feed ourselves, and pick up sticks to wave around in a semi-coordinated fashion.
Formal academic science is hilariously slow by comparison to babies.
Those are two different fields, with different problems. My answer to your thing is that we have embedded epistemological/ontological when we are born. From a different line of comments :
However, let’s say we consider naive observation and innate reasoning as being part of a proto-epistemy. Then we have to acknowledge too that we have a fair-share of embedded ontological knowledge that we don’t gain through experience, but that we have when we are born. (Time, space, multiplicity, weight, etc.).
This is paramount, as without that, we would actually be trapped in infinite regress.
The problems formal intellectual processes solve is not the problem of figuring things out quickly and solidly
Well, formal verification, proof systems, NLP and AGI are a thing. So I disagree.
The thing left to us to to solve something like the “political economy of science”.
No, there are plenty of other things. Including the aforementioned one. But more primary is fixing the “gift as a birthright”. That’s the point of rationalism. Our innate epistemy is a bad one. It lets us walk, gather sticks and talk with people, but it makes for bad science most of the time.
No. I mention the practical patch right after : epistemies.
Those are two different fields, with different problems. My answer to your thing is that we have embedded epistemological/ontological when we are born. From a different line of comments :
Well, formal verification, proof systems, NLP and AGI are a thing. So I disagree.
No, there are plenty of other things. Including the aforementioned one. But more primary is fixing the “gift as a birthright”. That’s the point of rationalism. Our innate epistemy is a bad one. It lets us walk, gather sticks and talk with people, but it makes for bad science most of the time.
Thanks for the pointer. Checking it.