meditation answer to “What rule could restrict our beliefs to just propositions that can be meaningful, without excluding a priori anything that could in principle be true?”
Rule: that we continue to use the words true and truth to describe if something corresponds to reality within a wider context of prediction, experimentation and action, and not solely observation. In this case we expand the senses of perception to include rational experimentation as part of how we evaluate true or not true.
The weird part about this is an underlying assumption that reality doesn’t necessarily correspond to matter etc. but instead to relationships that can be described or modeled on some level by language. For... (read more)
meditation answer to “What rule could restrict our beliefs to just propositions that can be meaningful, without excluding a priori anything that could in principle be true?”
Rule: that we continue to use the words true and truth to describe if something corresponds to reality within a wider context of prediction, experimentation and action, and not solely observation. In this case we expand the senses of perception to include rational experimentation as part of how we evaluate true or not true. The weird part about this is an underlying assumption that reality doesn’t necessarily correspond to matter etc. but instead to relationships that can be described or modeled on some level by language. For... (read more)