I think part of the idea is that the downsides of “too high” manifest if you need belief in order for something to function. If we design a system where “belief” is not consumed we don’t need to produce it. So the question becomes “do we really need beliefs?” as in can we do without. I would imagine a lot of people have accustomed to the idea that “final theory” is not coming or atleast it’s not reasonable to expect for it to come. The corresponding more radical idea is that “only suckers believe”.
Somebody that takes probablity very seriously might reject from processing any claim with 100% degree of belief and insists on 99% versions. The more extreme stance claims that what your “belief degree” is irrelevant and what matters is your evidence and reasons for that support the idea. Like if a police officer had “reasonable suscpicion” to do something whether that thing suspected was or was not the case doesn’t factor in whether it was reasonable to take that action. Truth of the suspicion would be irrelevant evidence.
That is an understandable stance but there are other people that see that the main role of science is to produce technologies. In this kind of view if you have a reproducible capacity it is ok to be hazy why exactly does it work. Some “clients” might care about worldview implications but other types of “clients” might not (war machine). It might be a word-semantics matching game but for some people “world appriciation” is a philosophy activty and not a science activity. Sure ontology might be a regular customer of physics, but physics is going to leave the ontology questions to ontology.
I ended up deciding to cut a line of reasoing pertaining how knowledge-pessimistic bread-greedy person might engage in activity that looks like science but doesn’t employ knowledge. Express interest if you wish for me to elaborate.
I think part of the idea is that the downsides of “too high” manifest if you need belief in order for something to function. If we design a system where “belief” is not consumed we don’t need to produce it. So the question becomes “do we really need beliefs?” as in can we do without. I would imagine a lot of people have accustomed to the idea that “final theory” is not coming or atleast it’s not reasonable to expect for it to come. The corresponding more radical idea is that “only suckers believe”.
Somebody that takes probablity very seriously might reject from processing any claim with 100% degree of belief and insists on 99% versions. The more extreme stance claims that what your “belief degree” is irrelevant and what matters is your evidence and reasons for that support the idea. Like if a police officer had “reasonable suscpicion” to do something whether that thing suspected was or was not the case doesn’t factor in whether it was reasonable to take that action. Truth of the suspicion would be irrelevant evidence.
The function of science is to output knowledge about the world, so just giving up on that to simplify things isn’t really an option.
That is an understandable stance but there are other people that see that the main role of science is to produce technologies. In this kind of view if you have a reproducible capacity it is ok to be hazy why exactly does it work. Some “clients” might care about worldview implications but other types of “clients” might not (war machine). It might be a word-semantics matching game but for some people “world appriciation” is a philosophy activty and not a science activity. Sure ontology might be a regular customer of physics, but physics is going to leave the ontology questions to ontology.
I ended up deciding to cut a line of reasoing pertaining how knowledge-pessimistic bread-greedy person might engage in activity that looks like science but doesn’t employ knowledge. Express interest if you wish for me to elaborate.