Your proposal seems to be that people’s subjectivities are converging because people are converging on some objective structure out in the world.
I agree that this seems important, but to me, this doesn’t quite appear to be the whole story.
In particular, I am quite sympathetic to the Kantian notion of categories through which we can’t help but perceive our experiences[1].
This seems very important to me for counterfactuals which are circular in the sense that we justify the use of counterfactuals via counterfactuals.
And I guess if you believe this for counterfactuals, then it seems like you probably should believe this for probabilities too because probabilities are built upon either counterfactuals or possibilities.
That said, I am less dogmatic than Kant, in that I believe that it is possible to bootstrap up from our naive conceptions to less naive conceptions much as Einstein bootstrapped up from space and time to spacetime.
Your proposal seems to be that people’s subjectivities are converging because people are converging on some objective structure out in the world.
I agree that this seems important, but to me, this doesn’t quite appear to be the whole story.
In particular, I am quite sympathetic to the Kantian notion of categories through which we can’t help but perceive our experiences[1].
This seems very important to me for counterfactuals which are circular in the sense that we justify the use of counterfactuals via counterfactuals.
And I guess if you believe this for counterfactuals, then it seems like you probably should believe this for probabilities too because probabilities are built upon either counterfactuals or possibilities.
That said, I am less dogmatic than Kant, in that I believe that it is possible to bootstrap up from our naive conceptions to less naive conceptions much as Einstein bootstrapped up from space and time to spacetime.
It seems to to me that this post is about the question “whence the categories?”