I meant stuck in the sense of couldn’t get out of. Not in the sense of could optionally remain stuck.
I don’t think there’s a way out if your method doesn’t eventually bottom out somewhere. If you don’t have a reliable or objective way of distinguishing good criticism from bad, the act of criticism can’t help you in any way, including trying to fix this standard.
We have knowledge about standards of criticism. We use it. Objections about starting points aren’t very relevant because Popperians never said they were justified by their starting points. What’s wrong with this?
If you don’t have objective knowledge of standards of criticism and you are unwilling to take one as an axiom, then what are you justified by?
If you don’t have objective knowledge of standards of criticism and you are unwilling to take one as an axiom, then what are you justified by?
Nothing. Justification is a mistake. The request that theories be justified is a mistake. They can’t be. They don’t need to be.
If you don’t have a reliable or objective way of distinguishing good criticism from bad, the act of criticism can’t help you in any way, including trying to fix this standard.
Using the best ideas we know of so far is a partially reliable, partially objective way which allows for progress.
I don’t think there’s a way out if your method doesn’t eventually bottom out somewhere. If you don’t have a reliable or objective way of distinguishing good criticism from bad, the act of criticism can’t help you in any way, including trying to fix this standard.
If you don’t have objective knowledge of standards of criticism and you are unwilling to take one as an axiom, then what are you justified by?
Nothing. Justification is a mistake. The request that theories be justified is a mistake. They can’t be. They don’t need to be.
Using the best ideas we know of so far is a partially reliable, partially objective way which allows for progress.