I’m a decade and a half late, but I’d like to say thanks for this essay. It was my first exposure to someone else using a principle I now hold pretty dear, which comes out in words similar to “A belief you can’t prove is a hallucination”[1]. I had intuition before, but now I can explain the statement “If you think you can’t prove something in any way, you’re unjustified in believing it, although it may coincidentally be true”.
I’m a decade and a half late, but I’d like to say thanks for this essay. It was my first exposure to someone else using a principle I now hold pretty dear, which comes out in words similar to “A belief you can’t prove is a hallucination”[1]. I had intuition before, but now I can explain the statement “If you think you can’t prove something in any way, you’re unjustified in believing it, although it may coincidentally be true”.
but which is more nuanced in my head where words are less important