The idea of rational understanding rests on the fact that you are separated from the object that you are trying to understand and the object itself doesn’t change if you change your understanding of it.
That’s not obvious to me. Why do you think this?
That’s true as long there no revelations of truth by Gods or other magical processes. In an universe where you can get the truth through magical tarot reading that assumption is false.
I also don’t understand this inference. Why do you think revelations of truth by Gods or other magical processes, or tarot readings, mean that such a universe would a) be knowable, and b) not be subject to rational analysis?
It might depend a bit of what you mean with rationality. You lose objectivity.
Let’s say I’m hypnotize someone. I’m in a deep state of rapport. That means my emotional state matters a great deal. If I label something that the person I’m talking to as unsuccessful, anxiety raises in myself. That anxiety will screw with the result I want to achieve. I’m better of if I blank my mind instead of engaging in rational analysis of what I’m doing.
I also don’t understand this inference. Why do you think revelations of truth by Gods or other magical processes, or tarot readings, mean that such a universe would a) be knowable, and b) not be subject to rational analysis?
Logically A → B is not the same thing as B → A.
I said that it’s possible for there to be knowledge that you can only get through a process besides rational analysis if you allow “magic”.
If I label something that the person I’m talking to as unsuccessful, anxiety raises in myself. That anxiety will screw with the result I want to achieve.
I’m a little lost. So do you think these observations challenge the idea that in order to understand anyone, we need to assume they’ve got mostly true beliefs, and make mostly rational inferences?
That’s not obvious to me. Why do you think this?
I also don’t understand this inference. Why do you think revelations of truth by Gods or other magical processes, or tarot readings, mean that such a universe would a) be knowable, and b) not be subject to rational analysis?
It might depend a bit of what you mean with rationality. You lose objectivity.
Let’s say I’m hypnotize someone. I’m in a deep state of rapport. That means my emotional state matters a great deal. If I label something that the person I’m talking to as unsuccessful, anxiety raises in myself. That anxiety will screw with the result I want to achieve. I’m better of if I blank my mind instead of engaging in rational analysis of what I’m doing.
Logically A → B is not the same thing as B → A.
I said that it’s possible for there to be knowledge that you can only get through a process besides rational analysis if you allow “magic”.
I’m a little lost. So do you think these observations challenge the idea that in order to understand anyone, we need to assume they’ve got mostly true beliefs, and make mostly rational inferences?