Philosophy mmight not have the goal of converging. It can be more valuable to generate all the possible options and to preserve solution prototypes. If everybody was using the same framework you would have effectively cut the growth space for new frameworks to zero. I philosopher is much happier that you have thought throught the problem rather than that you have come to the right conclusion.
Part of the reason why phisophy makes use of doublke cruching is precisely the presence of multiple frameworks. What passes as proof in one framework does not in the other. Another is accceptance of interest in forms of arguments whose strength is unknown. It’s perfectly reasonable to explore what kind of arguments we can make if we accept ad hominem as a valid argument even if we don’t know whether that is a good standard or even if we know that is a bad standard. Thus reading a philosphical literature it’s likely that somebody in the discussion shares your starting point which makes their processing relevant to your private one. And if you change principles and lose interest in one author it’s likely that another one is closer to your new position.
One relevant option is that philosophers think in terms of worldviews. Since single discusser have relatively random viewpoints what is socially established on what kinds of arguments fly with what kinds of groups. thus a working argument is one that is compliant to the groups axioms.
I’m not necessarily arguing doublecrux is better than whatever philosophers are doing for the purposes philosophers are doing it. Just, it seems (probably?) like it’s actually different to me.
[note that in the next few posts in this sequence I’ll be going into how to use doublecrux when in different worldviews, based on my experience so far. Which Vanilla Doublecrux doesn’t obviously handle, but I think the extension is relatively straightforward, and also important]
Philosophy mmight not have the goal of converging. It can be more valuable to generate all the possible options and to preserve solution prototypes. If everybody was using the same framework you would have effectively cut the growth space for new frameworks to zero. I philosopher is much happier that you have thought throught the problem rather than that you have come to the right conclusion.
Part of the reason why phisophy makes use of doublke cruching is precisely the presence of multiple frameworks. What passes as proof in one framework does not in the other. Another is accceptance of interest in forms of arguments whose strength is unknown. It’s perfectly reasonable to explore what kind of arguments we can make if we accept ad hominem as a valid argument even if we don’t know whether that is a good standard or even if we know that is a bad standard. Thus reading a philosphical literature it’s likely that somebody in the discussion shares your starting point which makes their processing relevant to your private one. And if you change principles and lose interest in one author it’s likely that another one is closer to your new position.
One relevant option is that philosophers think in terms of worldviews. Since single discusser have relatively random viewpoints what is socially established on what kinds of arguments fly with what kinds of groups. thus a working argument is one that is compliant to the groups axioms.
I’m not necessarily arguing doublecrux is better than whatever philosophers are doing for the purposes philosophers are doing it. Just, it seems (probably?) like it’s actually different to me.
[note that in the next few posts in this sequence I’ll be going into how to use doublecrux when in different worldviews, based on my experience so far. Which Vanilla Doublecrux doesn’t obviously handle, but I think the extension is relatively straightforward, and also important]