Vervaeke’s split between Luther and Descartes reminded me of SSC’s On First Looking into Chapman’s “Pop Bayesianism”, but the camps are importantly different. There, Aristotelianism is the camp of certainty, and Anton-Wilsonism the camp of anti-certainty. Here, both Luther and Descartes are after certainty; Luther thinks you get it by a sort of ‘pick it and stick with it’ faith (which is importantly detached from action, but not necessarily from evidence!), whereas Descartes thinks you get it from careful deductive reasoning.
Vervaeke’s split between Luther and Descartes reminded me of SSC’s On First Looking into Chapman’s “Pop Bayesianism”, but the camps are importantly different. There, Aristotelianism is the camp of certainty, and Anton-Wilsonism the camp of anti-certainty. Here, both Luther and Descartes are after certainty; Luther thinks you get it by a sort of ‘pick it and stick with it’ faith (which is importantly detached from action, but not necessarily from evidence!), whereas Descartes thinks you get it from careful deductive reasoning.