An unjustified claim does not have a credibility of zero. If it did, that would mean the opposite claim is certain.
You can’t judge the credibility of a claim in isolation. If there are N claims, the credibility of each is at most 1/n. So you need to know how many rival claims there are.
Hitchens razor explicitly applies to extraordinary claims. But how do you judge that?
Hitchens razor is ambiguous between there being a lot of rival claims (which is objective), and the claim being subjectively unlikely.
OK, so you agree that credibility is greater than zero, in other words—possible. So isn’t this a common assumption? I argue that all minds will share this idea—existence of fundamental “ought” is possible.
I’ve no idea what all minds will do. (No one else has). Rational minds will not treat anything as having an exactly zero credibility in theory, but often disregard some claims in practice. Which is somewhat justifiable based on limited resources, etc.
Do I understand correctly that you do not agree with this?
Could you share reasons?
An unjustified claim does not have a credibility of zero. If it did, that would mean the opposite claim is certain.
You can’t judge the credibility of a claim in isolation. If there are N claims, the credibility of each is at most 1/n. So you need to know how many rival claims there are.
Hitchens razor explicitly applies to extraordinary claims. But how do you judge that?
Hitchens razor is ambiguous between there being a lot of rival claims (which is objective), and the claim being subjectively unlikely.
OK, so you agree that credibility is greater than zero, in other words—possible. So isn’t this a common assumption? I argue that all minds will share this idea—existence of fundamental “ought” is possible.
I’ve no idea what all minds will do. (No one else has). Rational minds will not treat anything as having an exactly zero credibility in theory, but often disregard some claims in practice. Which is somewhat justifiable based on limited resources, etc.