Thank you for that brevity. It makes clear, what can then also be seen in the original, a striking omission: any injunction to pursue the truth, to make one’s beliefs correspond with reality. Which highlights the problem with (4): updating towards consistency—also called decompartmentalising—while neglecting to update towards reality is a short road to crackpottery.
Thank you for that brevity. It makes clear, what can then also be seen in the original, a striking omission: any injunction to pursue the truth, to make one’s beliefs correspond with reality. Which highlights the problem with (4): updating towards consistency—also called decompartmentalising—while neglecting to update towards reality is a short road to crackpottery.