Let's say that when you feel that you have a disease but you don't have it, you have the disease of hypochondria. But what if you feel that you have hypochondria and you don't feel that you have any other disease? :-)
Not unlike the confirmed skeptic who believes he has no beliefs. The fact that an epistemic position can't be true, doesn't mean it's an impossible position to be in.
This reminds me how James Allen, while teaching the Theaetetus, told us that he knew he was wrong about something. His evidence was that he thought he was wrong about something--so he was either right about that or wrong about that...
This reminds me of sorenson's, 'faking munchhausen's syndrome', https://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~obelkind/07.Phil353/Sorensen.pdf
ReplyDeleteSorensen even mentions Robert Antinozick who feels he has hypochondria but doesn't feel that he has any other disease. So I've been scooped.
ReplyDeleteNot unlike the confirmed skeptic who believes he has no beliefs. The fact that an epistemic position can't be true, doesn't mean it's an impossible position to be in.
ReplyDeleteanyone know whether this paper online?
ReplyDeleteHow to fake Munchausan's Syndrome by Veber (2010)
http://philpapers.org/rec/VEBHTF
Ahh!
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me how James Allen, while teaching the Theaetetus, told us that he knew he was wrong about something. His evidence was that he thought he was wrong about something--so he was either right about that or wrong about that...
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