Did I accuse someone of being incoherent? I didn’t mean to do that, I only meant to accuse myself of not being able to follow the distinction between a rule of logic (oh, take the Rule of Detachment for instance) and a syntactic elimination rule. In virtue of what do the latter escape the quantum of sceptical doubt that we should apply to other tautologies? I think there clearly is a distinction between believing a rule of logic is reliable for a particular domain, and knowing with the same confidence that a particular instance of its application has been correctly executed. But I can’t tell from the discussion if that’s what’s at play here, or if it is, whether it’s being deployed in a manner careful enough to avoid incoherence. I just can’t tell yet. For instance,
Conditioning on this tiny credence would produce various null implications in my reasoning process, which end up being discarded as incoherent
I don’t know what this amounts to without following a more detailed example.
It all seems to be somewhat vaguely along the lines of what Hartry Field says in his Locke lectures about rational revisability of the rules of logic and/or epistemic principles; his arguments are much more detailed, but I confess I have difficulty following him too.
Did I accuse someone of being incoherent? I didn’t mean to do that, I only meant to accuse myself of not being able to follow the distinction between a rule of logic (oh, take the Rule of Detachment for instance) and a syntactic elimination rule. In virtue of what do the latter escape the quantum of sceptical doubt that we should apply to other tautologies? I think there clearly is a distinction between believing a rule of logic is reliable for a particular domain, and knowing with the same confidence that a particular instance of its application has been correctly executed. But I can’t tell from the discussion if that’s what’s at play here, or if it is, whether it’s being deployed in a manner careful enough to avoid incoherence. I just can’t tell yet. For instance,
I don’t know what this amounts to without following a more detailed example.
It all seems to be somewhat vaguely along the lines of what Hartry Field says in his Locke lectures about rational revisability of the rules of logic and/or epistemic principles; his arguments are much more detailed, but I confess I have difficulty following him too.