Robin Hanson argues for the “many weak arguments” approach in this post. Describing a difference between himself and Bryan Caplan, he writes,
Bryan [Caplan]’s picture seems to be of a long metal chain linked at only one end to a solid foundation; chains of reasoning mainly introduce errors, so we do best to find and hold close to our few most confident intuitions. My picture is more like Quine’s “fabric,” a large hammock made of string tied to hundreds of leaves of invisible trees; we can’t trust each leaf much, but even so we can stay aloft by connecting each piece of string to many others and continually checking for and repairing broken strings.
Robin Hanson argues for the “many weak arguments” approach in this post. Describing a difference between himself and Bryan Caplan, he writes,