The only sensible response to the problem of induction is to do our best to track the truth anyway.
I just want to make clear that’s exactly what Kaj and I are saying to do. Our caveat is that it’s not the only thing you can do because it’s not the only thing you do do even if you wanted desperately with all your heart for it to be otherwise.
Everybody who comes up with some clever reason to avoid doing this thinks they’ve found some magical shortcut, some powerful yet-undiscovered tool (dangerous in the wrong hands, of course, but a rational person can surely use it safely...). Then they cut themselves on it.
This also seems to be missing the point; we’re specifically saying that we think that things that rationalist think are not magical instead are magical (assuming to know the criterion of truth) and because of this you can’t make assumptions strong enough to directly go after the truth without contradiction.
I just want to make clear that’s exactly what Kaj and I are saying to do. Our caveat is that it’s not the only thing you can do because it’s not the only thing you do do even if you wanted desperately with all your heart for it to be otherwise.
This also seems to be missing the point; we’re specifically saying that we think that things that rationalist think are not magical instead are magical (assuming to know the criterion of truth) and because of this you can’t make assumptions strong enough to directly go after the truth without contradiction.