Analysis of such situations can’t rely on those moral intuitions, but nihilistic position would also be incorrect: we are just not equipped to evaluate them.
Do you believe that a nihilistic position would be incorrect on the grounds of internal logical inconsistency, or on the grounds that it would involve an incorrect factual statement about some objectively existing property of the universe?
There are no grounds to privilege nihilistic hypothesis. It’s like asserting that the speed of light is exactly 5,000,000,000 m/s before making the first experiment. I’m ignorant, and I argue that you must be ignorant as well.
(Of course, this situation doesn’t mean that we don’t have some state of knowledge about this fact, but this state of knowledge would have to involve a fair bit of uncertainty. Decision-making is possible without much of epistemic confidence, understanding of what’s going on.)
Could you give an example of a possible future insight that would invalidate the nihilistic position? I honestly don’t understand on what grounds you might be judging “correctness” here.
Vladimir_Nesov:
Do you believe that a nihilistic position would be incorrect on the grounds of internal logical inconsistency, or on the grounds that it would involve an incorrect factual statement about some objectively existing property of the universe?
There are no grounds to privilege nihilistic hypothesis. It’s like asserting that the speed of light is exactly 5,000,000,000 m/s before making the first experiment. I’m ignorant, and I argue that you must be ignorant as well.
(Of course, this situation doesn’t mean that we don’t have some state of knowledge about this fact, but this state of knowledge would have to involve a fair bit of uncertainty. Decision-making is possible without much of epistemic confidence, understanding of what’s going on.)
Could you give an example of a possible future insight that would invalidate the nihilistic position? I honestly don’t understand on what grounds you might be judging “correctness” here.