It’s not only outside vs. inside view. It’s knowing things is really hard. Humans are by nature overconfident. Life isn’t fair. The fact that empiric evidence is hard to get doesn’t make theoretical reasoning about the issue any more likely to be correct.
I rather trust a doctor with medical experience (has an inside view) to translate empirical studies in a way that applies directly to me than someone who reasons simply based on reading the study and who has no medical experience.
I do sin from time from time and act overconfident. But that doesn’t mean it’s right. Skepticism is a virtue. I like Foersters book “Truth is the invention of a liar” (unfortunately that book is in German, and I haven’t read other writing by him).
It doesn’t really gives answers but it makes the unknowing more graspable.
It’s not only outside vs. inside view. It’s knowing things is really hard. Humans are by nature overconfident. Life isn’t fair. The fact that empiric evidence is hard to get doesn’t make theoretical reasoning about the issue any more likely to be correct.
I rather trust a doctor with medical experience (has an inside view) to translate empirical studies in a way that applies directly to me than someone who reasons simply based on reading the study and who has no medical experience.
I do sin from time from time and act overconfident. But that doesn’t mean it’s right. Skepticism is a virtue. I like Foersters book “Truth is the invention of a liar” (unfortunately that book is in German, and I haven’t read other writing by him). It doesn’t really gives answers but it makes the unknowing more graspable.