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Showing posts with label William James. Show all posts
Monday, October 8, 2018

Evidentialism, and self-defeating and self-guaranteeing beliefs

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Consider this modified version of William James’ mountaineer case: The mountaineer’s survival depends on his jumping over a crevasse, and th...
Monday, October 10, 2011

It is more than 2.588 times as important to avoid certainty about a falsehood than to have certainty about a truth

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William James discusses two kinds of people: there is the person whose epistemic life is focused on getting to as many truths as possi...
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