Q&A: A Philosophical Question
A Philosophical Question
Question
I received two white papers—the first swallows—from the group “philosophy logics.”
Among other things, they move from discussions of individual philosophy (disbelief in your five/six senses… “Who says that what I see is the correct / true thing?”) to shared philosophy (if you see it, and others do too… then…), all under the assumptions that creatures were created symmetrically and that they are not lying (they have no interest in lying, and if they do—there is a procedure of excluding outliers).
This procedure bypasses various blocks in the classical approach.
What do you think?
Answer
I don’t see the novelty. These are old claims. The skeptics, of course, won’t be convinced (the claim isn’t that someone is lying, and the assumption that everyone was created similarly will itself be attacked by them).
Furthermore, I am not a skeptic, but for me trust in the senses and in basic intuitions is not based on agreement about them, but on my own intuition. Agreement carries some weight, but it is definitely not the foundation. Perhaps the opposite is more significant: if there is no agreement, then I should re-examine my intuitions.
The main point that might perhaps be interesting is the use of distributed logics for parallel philosophical issues (overall just a shorter formulation, and perhaps a more precise one)
Many thanks