You can tell them that your impressions have previously always been correct and surprising. To the extent that they trust you, the evidence will be just as good for them as it was for you.
The extent to which they trust you may not be very great, especially given that what you’re telling them is that sometimes God speaks to you with an aura of apricots and reveals surprising but mundane truths. In any case, telling them this doesn’t make your evidence any less incommunicable, except in so far as it makes all evidence communicable.
In this case, they’ll trust you less than if you told them that your shoelaces were untied, but it’s not fundamentally different. Your shoelaces being untied is only communicable in the sense that you can tell someone, unless you count telling them to look at your shoes, but that doesn’t seem to be what this is talking about.
Unless I misunderstood Eliezer, he seemed to be saying that all evidence is communicable in exactly this way.
You can tell them that your impressions have previously always been correct and surprising. To the extent that they trust you, the evidence will be just as good for them as it was for you.
The extent to which they trust you may not be very great, especially given that what you’re telling them is that sometimes God speaks to you with an aura of apricots and reveals surprising but mundane truths. In any case, telling them this doesn’t make your evidence any less incommunicable, except in so far as it makes all evidence communicable.
(Note: old “g” = newer “gjm”.)
In this case, they’ll trust you less than if you told them that your shoelaces were untied, but it’s not fundamentally different. Your shoelaces being untied is only communicable in the sense that you can tell someone, unless you count telling them to look at your shoes, but that doesn’t seem to be what this is talking about.
Unless I misunderstood Eliezer, he seemed to be saying that all evidence is communicable in exactly this way.