When Naturalized Epistemology Goes Too Far (Quine 1994)

#Philosophy #Quine #Epistemology

[logiclane]

Gambler's Fallacy is something of a mystery. How can 50% be so determinate at the macro, and so indeterminate at the micro?

[barnabybaxter]

That's Quine's pragmatist side.

[yoramgt]

What is the criterion for something being "correct" if not some sort of "successful application"?

[JonSebastianF]

Well, the summary did not do Quine's view any favour _:P_ (4:33) “The idea is that, if a certain pattern of reasoning, which we currently take as fallacious, were to turn out to lead to people having happier lives and more babies, then the norms would change and it would no longer be correct to describe that reasoning as fallacious.”
But isn't all this a consequence of Quine's general coherentism – whereby the logical core in our web of belief could, in principle, also change – which he laid out already back in _“Two Dogmas of Empiricism”_ ?

[derekanderson]

I mean, if the gambler's fallacy were found to reliably produce winnings, i.e. if we learned that strings of bad luck really were followed by strings of good luck, then I don't see why we would continue to believe it was a fallacy.

[alexplotkin]

Quine - Norms of epistemology. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[rhetoric]

Arabic has natural epistemology. English does not. In Arabic etymology, ontology, epistemology are all interrelated linguistically, while in English it is a matter of conjecture. The penises that maybe derived from this is that language is a tool of cognition, not communication and that all languages derive from a single original language. Of the latter deduction Arabic is the Nader and luckily nostartic theory developed independently to buster support for the case.

[JhonnySerna]

I don't see what's strange. Pointing out to fallacies and statistics errors, which are in turn learned through trial and error, doesn't seem a unreasonable thing to think. What else should we demand?

[Edruezzi]

Russell echoed a great deal of Quine when he noted that everything in traditional philosophy written about the infinitesimal of calculus was nonsense because of the work of Weirstrauss.