The claim that the map-territority model impliesa correspondence theory of truth is boldy stated and for clarity tha is good. I think the “proof” of it is quite implicit and I kind of find the claim not to stand. I still think that the phrasing is prone to support that kind of mode of thought that is problematic.
I find that if I want to avoid mention of territority I can do it mostly fine in that framing. I keep my nose stuck on a piece of paper and if my walking doesn’t get me surprised I am happy and confident to walk on. I don’t need to claim that I am walking in anything.
I suspect that having a priviledged entity such as “prediction” to be in the map is more misleading than it is fixing. That is a list of directions like “walk 100 m turn right walk 200 m” would be equally a “map” than a “free view point” representation and having a specific this kind of map format be somehow more important than others works in a different dimension than the map and territority distinction touches on.
Yeah, privileging prediction doesn’t really solve anything. This post is meant to be a bit of a bridge towards a viewpoint that resolves this issue by dropping the privileging of any particular concern, but getting there requires first seeing that a very firm notion of truth based on the assumption of something external can be weakened to a more fluid notion based on only what is experienced (since, my bold claim is that’s how the world is anyway and we’re just confused when making metaphysical claims otherwise).
The claim that the map-territority model impliesa correspondence theory of truth is boldy stated and for clarity tha is good. I think the “proof” of it is quite implicit and I kind of find the claim not to stand. I still think that the phrasing is prone to support that kind of mode of thought that is problematic.
I find that if I want to avoid mention of territority I can do it mostly fine in that framing. I keep my nose stuck on a piece of paper and if my walking doesn’t get me surprised I am happy and confident to walk on. I don’t need to claim that I am walking in anything.
I suspect that having a priviledged entity such as “prediction” to be in the map is more misleading than it is fixing. That is a list of directions like “walk 100 m turn right walk 200 m” would be equally a “map” than a “free view point” representation and having a specific this kind of map format be somehow more important than others works in a different dimension than the map and territority distinction touches on.
Yeah, privileging prediction doesn’t really solve anything. This post is meant to be a bit of a bridge towards a viewpoint that resolves this issue by dropping the privileging of any particular concern, but getting there requires first seeing that a very firm notion of truth based on the assumption of something external can be weakened to a more fluid notion based on only what is experienced (since, my bold claim is that’s how the world is anyway and we’re just confused when making metaphysical claims otherwise).