The dog is just enacting programs encoded in its genes by evolution (uniquely among animals, dog genes contain knowledge of human memes). Dogs can’t create knowledge, humans are the only animal that have that capacity, and the evolutionary process that created the knowledge in a dog’s genes is not an inductive process.
Popper learnt ancient Greek because he knew that translations are often wildly inaccurate and they are inaccurate because all translations are interpretations. He liked to get his facts correct.
Dogs do not have ‘knowledge’ in their genes. What they do have is pattern-matching capabilities. If they see a pattern enough times, they start expecting it to occur more often.
This same pattern matching goes on in the brains of humans, with the difference that the patterns it can spot are more sophisticated. Without it we would never have invented science or technology, and for that matter we would never have survived in the ancestral environment.
If the first three people to wander into the swamp get eaten by crocodiles, and you don’t consider this a valid argument for not walking into the swamp, then your genes won’t be present in the next generation.
I take it you have a subjectivist conception of knowledge. Is that right?
If the first three people to wander into the swamp get eaten by crocodiles, and you don’t consider this a valid argument for not walking into the swamp, then your genes won’t be present in the next generation.
If they considered something else a good argument for the same conclusion, then that argument wouldn’t work (had to do induction or die). Agreed?
The dog is just enacting programs encoded in its genes by evolution (uniquely among animals, dog genes contain knowledge of human memes). Dogs can’t create knowledge, humans are the only animal that have that capacity, and the evolutionary process that created the knowledge in a dog’s genes is not an inductive process.
Popper learnt ancient Greek because he knew that translations are often wildly inaccurate and they are inaccurate because all translations are interpretations. He liked to get his facts correct.
Dogs do not have ‘knowledge’ in their genes. What they do have is pattern-matching capabilities. If they see a pattern enough times, they start expecting it to occur more often.
This same pattern matching goes on in the brains of humans, with the difference that the patterns it can spot are more sophisticated. Without it we would never have invented science or technology, and for that matter we would never have survived in the ancestral environment.
If the first three people to wander into the swamp get eaten by crocodiles, and you don’t consider this a valid argument for not walking into the swamp, then your genes won’t be present in the next generation.
I take it you have a subjectivist conception of knowledge. Is that right?
If they considered something else a good argument for the same conclusion, then that argument wouldn’t work (had to do induction or die). Agreed?