If the above is true, aren’t the postmodernists right? Isn’t all this talk of ‘truth’ just an attempt to assert the privilege of your own beliefs over others, when there’s nothing that can actually compare a belief to reality itself, outside of anyone’s head?
No, we are talking about personal epistemology. That is, if we cannot compare a belief to reality, you cannot also compare it to some other persons beliefs (there is reality at least in between). We want truth to be a way of privledging some of our beliefs over other beliefs, in a way so that we can functionalize an epistemology.
For this, what we want are beliefs where our expected value for the difference between the believed results and the actual results (that is our loss in ML terms (retroactivly)) and expected informaiton magintutde, bayesian, are small, are more true, which propogates according to our update rule (that is, our “logical system”)
No, we are talking about personal epistemology. That is, if we cannot compare a belief to reality, you cannot also compare it to some other persons beliefs (there is reality at least in between). We want truth to be a way of privledging some of our beliefs over other beliefs, in a way so that we can functionalize an epistemology.
For this, what we want are beliefs where our expected value for the difference between the believed results and the actual results (that is our loss in ML terms (retroactivly)) and expected informaiton magintutde, bayesian, are small, are more true, which propogates according to our update rule (that is, our “logical system”)