Logic and reason indicate the robustness of a claim, but you can have lots of robust, mutually-contradictory claims. A robust claim is one that contradicts neither itself nor other claims it associates with. The other half is how well it resonates with people. Resonance indicates how attractive a claim is through authority, consensus, scarcity, poetry, or whatever else.
Survive and spread through robustness and resonance. That’s what a strong claim does. You can state that you’ll only let a claim spread into your mind if it’s true, but the fact that it’s so common for two such people to hold contradictory claims indicates that their real metric is much weaker than truth. I’ll posit that the real metric in such scenarios is robustness.
Not all disagreements will separate cleanly into true/false categorizations. Godel proved that one.
Logic and reason indicate the robustness of a claim, but you can have lots of robust, mutually-contradictory claims. A robust claim is one that contradicts neither itself nor other claims it associates with. The other half is how well it resonates with people. Resonance indicates how attractive a claim is through authority, consensus, scarcity, poetry, or whatever else.
Survive and spread through robustness and resonance. That’s what a strong claim does. You can state that you’ll only let a claim spread into your mind if it’s true, but the fact that it’s so common for two such people to hold contradictory claims indicates that their real metric is much weaker than truth. I’ll posit that the real metric in such scenarios is robustness.
Not all disagreements will separate cleanly into true/false categorizations. Godel proved that one.