the moderators here actually just threatened my friend with a ban for posting a link to one of my articles about our philosophical disagreements, and deleted the thread. it was this one about empiricism and instrumentalism (not quite induction, but closely related): http://curi.us/2067-empiricism-and-instrumentalism
the reason you have trouble applying reason is b/c u understand reason badly. it’s easy if u understand it well enuf. the idea/action gap is a matter of flaws in the ideas – both having the wrong ideas and also having incomplete ideas. ideas are what you need. nothing but ideas can help/save you.
insight porn sucks because its ideas aren’t good enough, and are designed to impress people with standard memes, not to be useful. it’s a trap which you shouldn’t mix up with real philosophy.
also you ask about posting an anti-induction article. i wrote a number of anti-induction arguments both on the forums and in slack, which have not been answered. i also gave references to more, which have not been answered. why should everything be repeated for each individual who comes along and doesn’t want to read references?
repeating arguments for people unwilling to look at the literature is not productive. it takes so much effort to understand philosophy that the effort of doing some reading is table stakes. people who don’t want to do that are unserious. and you only have to read until the first mistake, and then comment. and if you’re wrong about that first mistake, you can look for the second one and also take the matter more seriously. and by the 5th incorrect mistake i expect your full attention.
the methodology disagreements need to come before the induction disagreement or we won’t be discussing induction using the same rules of discussion.
and you ask me to define induction so we’re on the same page. that’s part of the problem. ppl are LW are not on the same page, and want to all be addressed individually – which is too much work, and anyway none of them take responsibility for finding the truth, they all just quit after a small amount of discussion, as i expect you to as well. if you want to learn, join FI ( http://fallibleideas.com/discussion-info ) and ask and ppl will help you. or read. http://fallibleideas.com/books or look through the discussions i already had here (both recently and years ago) and answer the points that others did not. you can find logs of the slack chats at https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/fallible-ideas/info
more broadly, inductivists vary so much – and most barely know anything about induction. so there’s no really short one-size-fits-all way to address the issue. it’s a big topic. hence lots of important arguments – and, perhaps more importantly, extensive explanation of the alternative.
if you really want an anti-induction article, one of the best things you could do, first, is give me a pro-induction article you endorse, and stand behind, and take responsibility for. shouldn’t that come first? but when i asked for canonical LW material that would be appropriate to respond to, and that anyone would care if it was mistaken … i was flamed. lay out your positive claims in a serious way – stick your neck out as CR has – before asking for refutation of your unspecified positive claims.
the moderators here actually just threatened my friend with a ban for posting a link to one of my articles about our philosophical disagreements, and deleted the thread. it was this one about empiricism and instrumentalism (not quite induction, but closely related): http://curi.us/2067-empiricism-and-instrumentalism
the reason you have trouble applying reason is b/c u understand reason badly. it’s easy if u understand it well enuf. the idea/action gap is a matter of flaws in the ideas – both having the wrong ideas and also having incomplete ideas. ideas are what you need. nothing but ideas can help/save you.
insight porn sucks because its ideas aren’t good enough, and are designed to impress people with standard memes, not to be useful. it’s a trap which you shouldn’t mix up with real philosophy.
also you ask about posting an anti-induction article. i wrote a number of anti-induction arguments both on the forums and in slack, which have not been answered. i also gave references to more, which have not been answered. why should everything be repeated for each individual who comes along and doesn’t want to read references?
repeating arguments for people unwilling to look at the literature is not productive. it takes so much effort to understand philosophy that the effort of doing some reading is table stakes. people who don’t want to do that are unserious. and you only have to read until the first mistake, and then comment. and if you’re wrong about that first mistake, you can look for the second one and also take the matter more seriously. and by the 5th incorrect mistake i expect your full attention.
the methodology disagreements need to come before the induction disagreement or we won’t be discussing induction using the same rules of discussion.
and you ask me to define induction so we’re on the same page. that’s part of the problem. ppl are LW are not on the same page, and want to all be addressed individually – which is too much work, and anyway none of them take responsibility for finding the truth, they all just quit after a small amount of discussion, as i expect you to as well. if you want to learn, join FI ( http://fallibleideas.com/discussion-info ) and ask and ppl will help you. or read. http://fallibleideas.com/books or look through the discussions i already had here (both recently and years ago) and answer the points that others did not. you can find logs of the slack chats at https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/fallible-ideas/info
more broadly, inductivists vary so much – and most barely know anything about induction. so there’s no really short one-size-fits-all way to address the issue. it’s a big topic. hence lots of important arguments – and, perhaps more importantly, extensive explanation of the alternative.
if you really want an anti-induction article, one of the best things you could do, first, is give me a pro-induction article you endorse, and stand behind, and take responsibility for. shouldn’t that come first? but when i asked for canonical LW material that would be appropriate to respond to, and that anyone would care if it was mistaken … i was flamed. lay out your positive claims in a serious way – stick your neck out as CR has – before asking for refutation of your unspecified positive claims.
and no i don’t give ideas probabilities. https://yesornophilosophy.com
Justin used to be merely “a member of the FI forum. he followed one of my links”. But now it turns out you’re a team?
Mirrors. They are a thing, you should look into one.
Clearly, your valuable time is wasted here. You probably should go find emptier vessels to fill with your wisdom.
I described to you my approach to induction. Were there any fatal flaws you noticed but didn’t mention?
Yes, we understand your approach has problems :-P
Stop making hostile assumptions, I wasn’t even talking about Justin.
Please keep posting here. Your powers of persuasion are amazing.