tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post8476450058179550268..comments2024-03-28T19:56:42.305-05:00Comments on Alexander Pruss's Blog: Going beyond the evidence out of love for the truthAlexander R Prusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-60774613943459634492011-10-09T14:28:58.245-05:002011-10-09T14:28:58.245-05:00Lara Buchak has pointed out to me that there is a ...Lara Buchak has pointed out to me that there is a literature on this stuff--see <a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemic-utility/" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<br /><br />What I am using in this paper is, I think, basically the absolute value rule. But its symmetry is unsatisfactory. The disutility of assigning 1 to something false shouldn't be equal to the utility of assigning 1 to something true (in fact, I have an argument that the disutility should be at least 2.59 times greater than the utility--I may post that eventually).Alexander R Prusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-77581593623548648262011-10-08T17:09:00.142-05:002011-10-08T17:09:00.142-05:00Dr. Pruss, you just ruined my paper... I'm cur...Dr. Pruss, you just ruined my paper... I'm currently working on a paper outlining my epistemic theory as a moderate evidentialist and this is a stick in my spokes! Well, thanks for the new information to consider!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com