So I think that when you notice that feeling, you should stand up for the sanctity of your mind.
This is only useful to the extent that you already trust your mind to generate accurate beliefs. It’s possible or even likely that relativists get the same “ick” reaction when scientists start talking about universal laws.
I wonder. An analogy: a relatively uncompartmentalized mind encountering such (potentially instrumentally useful) wrong beliefs suffers from epistemic contagion like water encountering Ice-nine. A honeycombed, extremely inconsistent mind encountering universal laws suffers like a ship with extensive compartment breaches.
This is only useful to the extent that you already trust your mind to generate accurate beliefs. It’s possible or even likely that relativists get the same “ick” reaction when scientists start talking about universal laws.
It’s potentially useful even if I don’t, if I trust my mind to recognize a good-faith effort at explanation.
I wonder. An analogy: a relatively uncompartmentalized mind encountering such (potentially instrumentally useful) wrong beliefs suffers from epistemic contagion like water encountering Ice-nine. A honeycombed, extremely inconsistent mind encountering universal laws suffers like a ship with extensive compartment breaches.
Downvoted for confusing “postmodernists” and “relativists” and spreading a common missconception.
Could you explain the two of them to me?
Fixed, thanks.