Yes on the overall gist, and I feel like most of the rest of the post is trying to define the word “things” more precisely. The Spokesperson things “past annual returns of a specific investment opportunity” are a “thing.” The Scientist thinks this is not unreasonable, but that “extrapolations from established physical theories I’m familiar with” are more of a “thing.” The Epistemologist says only the most basic low-level facts we have, taken as a whole set, are a “thing” and we would ideally reason from all of them without drawing these other boundaries with too sharp and rigid a line. Or at least, that in places where we disagree about the nature of the “things,” that’s the direction in which we should move to settle the disagreement.
Yes on the overall gist, and I feel like most of the rest of the post is trying to define the word “things” more precisely. The Spokesperson things “past annual returns of a specific investment opportunity” are a “thing.” The Scientist thinks this is not unreasonable, but that “extrapolations from established physical theories I’m familiar with” are more of a “thing.” The Epistemologist says only the most basic low-level facts we have, taken as a whole set, are a “thing” and we would ideally reason from all of them without drawing these other boundaries with too sharp and rigid a line. Or at least, that in places where we disagree about the nature of the “things,” that’s the direction in which we should move to settle the disagreement.