When you wrote “But neither does it seem like the same shade of uncertainty” I suppose you mean that it doesn’t seem that way, to you. Nor does it to me. But before, as a thinking person, I suggest that the difference is meaningful, I need a context or a reason. You haven’t provided one, and that’s why your argument has the flavor of religion, to my palette.
I’d love to see your answer to the actual skeptical argument, rather than the straw man you offer, here. Here you are doing the equivalent of announcing “I’m thinking of a number!..… 5!...… I’m right again! My quest for order is rewarded!”
If you use mathematics to find order in the messy world, and you succeed, does that amount to a proof that the order you found is the actual order? Kepler would have argued yes! So would have Newton. Both were wrong. We know they were wrong. Wrong but their ideas are enduringly useful, as far as we know… so far… The skeptical position is not one of denying the value of ideas, but rather that of continuing the inquiry.
When my inquiry ceases, my beliefs become hardened premises that define my world and prevents me from benefiting from ideas of people with different premises. That’s fine in a simple world. A gamer’s world. I’ve become convinced that there is no simple world, except in our fantasies. Overcoming bias is about finding our center in a messy world. It’s about overcoming fantasy.
When you wrote “But neither does it seem like the same shade of uncertainty” I suppose you mean that it doesn’t seem that way, to you. Nor does it to me. But before, as a thinking person, I suggest that the difference is meaningful, I need a context or a reason. You haven’t provided one, and that’s why your argument has the flavor of religion, to my palette.
I’d love to see your answer to the actual skeptical argument, rather than the straw man you offer, here. Here you are doing the equivalent of announcing “I’m thinking of a number!..… 5!...… I’m right again! My quest for order is rewarded!”
If you use mathematics to find order in the messy world, and you succeed, does that amount to a proof that the order you found is the actual order? Kepler would have argued yes! So would have Newton. Both were wrong. We know they were wrong. Wrong but their ideas are enduringly useful, as far as we know… so far… The skeptical position is not one of denying the value of ideas, but rather that of continuing the inquiry.
When my inquiry ceases, my beliefs become hardened premises that define my world and prevents me from benefiting from ideas of people with different premises. That’s fine in a simple world. A gamer’s world. I’ve become convinced that there is no simple world, except in our fantasies. Overcoming bias is about finding our center in a messy world. It’s about overcoming fantasy.