I would love to read you critique the correspondence theory. I’ve never been able to really imagine a non-correspondence view of truth for more than ten minutes. Every now and again I can use pragmatist goggles, but then I ask why true sentences are more useful to believe than false ones, and I come right back to correspondence.
As I understand things, EY is a hardcore correspondence dude, and so is the rest of most of LW. I’d be very interested to hear what problems you have with correspondence. I just can’t imagine a belief being rational for any reason other than it modeling reality, and I can’t imagine what it means for one statement to be truer than another without imagining that one models reality more accurately than the other. I’d love to know how you do this, if you do. Or if you could recommend a couple texts on correspondence you sympathize with.
I was thinking I would try to stay away from things already on LW. But correspondence is a big topic. I’ll include it, but I already started working on something else for the first question.
I would love to read you critique the correspondence theory. I’ve never been able to really imagine a non-correspondence view of truth for more than ten minutes. Every now and again I can use pragmatist goggles, but then I ask why true sentences are more useful to believe than false ones, and I come right back to correspondence.
As I understand things, EY is a hardcore correspondence dude, and so is the rest of most of LW. I’d be very interested to hear what problems you have with correspondence. I just can’t imagine a belief being rational for any reason other than it modeling reality, and I can’t imagine what it means for one statement to be truer than another without imagining that one models reality more accurately than the other. I’d love to know how you do this, if you do. Or if you could recommend a couple texts on correspondence you sympathize with.
Perhaps this can be the subject of your first post in the series on philosophical questions for LW discussion.
I was thinking I would try to stay away from things already on LW. But correspondence is a big topic. I’ll include it, but I already started working on something else for the first question.