Interesting text, but I’m getting a nagging intuition here regarding what assumptions you are using for correct reasoning. Correct me if I am wrong, but is your assumption that your assumption for normative rationality (both decision making and inquiry) is one of pure statistical and logical inference, and a deviation from this norm you consider a fallacy.
It’s been quite a while since I wrote this post, so it’s hard for me to remember what exactly I was thinking when writing it. :) But I think that I at least meant that there’s a significant component of epistemic rationality that’s basically the same as statistical inference, and that deviating from its norm is likely to create incorrect beliefs.
I don’t know whether I would have said that that’s the only part of rationality, but at least I wouldn’t endorse such a claim now, and I think the post works even without such an assumption.
Interesting text, but I’m getting a nagging intuition here regarding what assumptions you are using for correct reasoning. Correct me if I am wrong, but is your assumption that your assumption for normative rationality (both decision making and inquiry) is one of pure statistical and logical inference, and a deviation from this norm you consider a fallacy.
Is this correct of me to assume?
It’s been quite a while since I wrote this post, so it’s hard for me to remember what exactly I was thinking when writing it. :) But I think that I at least meant that there’s a significant component of epistemic rationality that’s basically the same as statistical inference, and that deviating from its norm is likely to create incorrect beliefs.
I don’t know whether I would have said that that’s the only part of rationality, but at least I wouldn’t endorse such a claim now, and I think the post works even without such an assumption.