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> > So try. Reflective equilibrium theory actually is interesting to me.
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>Sure. But nothing I might say about it would be.
It's up to you. You intimated that you had something to say.
>I found Harman's Ethics and Observation to be a challenging work.
Say more.
if you don't find Posner's philosophical stuff worth reading, no one is
> > holdinga gun to your head, read something else.
>
>Never said or intimated anything of the sort. This whole "debate"
>originated when I took issue with your assertion that Posner's a very good
>AP.
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> > It's almost an analytical truth, if there was any such thing, that if I
> > believe something I think it is right.
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>Thanks for clearing that up for me. I was actually getting at precisely
>what you said a couple of sentences later: "I know that I am not likely to
>be right about everything." I'd go further: the divergence of opinion
>displayed even (and perhaps particularly) by those of the supplest
>intellects leads me to believe that most of us are substantially in error
>much of the time.
This is strange. Davidson argues (I think wrongly) that most of our beliefs
have to be true. You seem to suggest that most of them are in fact false.
Any candidates?
>
>BTW, I'm still curious as to why you'd tell someone you happen to be
>conversing with, "furthermore, you are almost always wrong." Is that your
>idea of a provocative aside?
>
You are being humor-impaired. But in more serious vein, if I disagree with you, it follows that I think you are wrong. If I disagree with you about almost everything . . . . But there are worse things than being wrong.
jks
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