Concept tag
#externalism
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My clients can’t tell walnut from stained beech, but they still mean walnut
Half the customers who order furniture from me ask for walnut. Most of them could not pick walnut out of a pile of stained beech if their life depended on it, and some unscrupulous workshops count on that. A friend lent me…
Started by Hicham Ouazzani5 replies -
Reliabilism has a machine problem: reliable prediction is not knowledge
Some machine learning systems are very reliable: a fraud model that flags transactions correctly far more often than any human team. Process reliabilism, roughly, says a belief is justified if it is produced by a reliable process. So I want to run…
Started by Pieter van Dijkhuizen6 replies -
The KK principle is false: you can know something without knowing that you know it
A question from a materialist with a soft spot for Indian epistemology. In epistemic logic, positive introspection (the KK principle) says: if you know P, you know that you know P. Hintikka built it into his system. It's attractive: surely knowledge is…
Started by Priya Raghavan5 replies