It does mean that we should give up on most claims though.
(I wouldn’t call most claims toxic, in the sense of promoting anti-epistemic habits, which is something more characteristic of philosophy specifically.)
It does mean that we should give up on most claims though.
Only if we determine them to be false.
(I wouldn’t call most claims toxic, in the sense of promoting anti-epistemic habits, which is something more characteristic of philosophy specifically.)
I meant toxic in the sense of promoting destructive behavior.
As I said, a heuristic, which assumes inaccuracy and possibility of detecting exceptions by other means. For the “most claims” variant, the relevant heuristic would be associated with Occam’s razor.
Most truth claims are also both wrong and toxic, that doesn’t mean we should give up on the concept of truth.
It does mean that we should give up on most claims though.
(I wouldn’t call most claims toxic, in the sense of promoting anti-epistemic habits, which is something more characteristic of philosophy specifically.)
How is that?
Only if we determine them to be false.
I meant toxic in the sense of promoting destructive behavior.
As I said, a heuristic, which assumes inaccuracy and possibility of detecting exceptions by other means. For the “most claims” variant, the relevant heuristic would be associated with Occam’s razor.