The point is kinda that you can take it to be a hypothesis and have it approach 100% likelihood. That’s not possible if that hypothesis is instead assumed to be true. I mean, you might still run the calculations, they just don’t matter since you couldn’t change your mind in such a situation even if you wanted to.
I think the baked-in absurdity of that last statement (since people do in fact reject assumptions) points at why I think there’s actual no contradiction in my statements. It’s both true that I don’t have access to the “real” God’s eye view and that I can reconstruct one but will never be able to be 100% sure that I have. Thus I mean to be descriptive of how we find reality: we don’t have access to anything other than our own experience, and yet we’re able to infer lots of stuff. I’m just trying to be especial careful to not ground anything prior in the chain of epistemic reasoning on something inferred downstream, and that means not being able to predicate certain kinds of knowledge on the existence of an objective reality because I need those things to get to the point of being able to infer the existence of an objective reality.
The point is kinda that you can take it to be a hypothesis and have it approach 100% likelihood. That’s not possible if that hypothesis is instead assumed to be true. I mean, you might still run the calculations, they just don’t matter since you couldn’t change your mind in such a situation even if you wanted to.
I think the baked-in absurdity of that last statement (since people do in fact reject assumptions) points at why I think there’s actual no contradiction in my statements. It’s both true that I don’t have access to the “real” God’s eye view and that I can reconstruct one but will never be able to be 100% sure that I have. Thus I mean to be descriptive of how we find reality: we don’t have access to anything other than our own experience, and yet we’re able to infer lots of stuff. I’m just trying to be especial careful to not ground anything prior in the chain of epistemic reasoning on something inferred downstream, and that means not being able to predicate certain kinds of knowledge on the existence of an objective reality because I need those things to get to the point of being able to infer the existence of an objective reality.