OCD<https://psychcentral.com/lib/doubt-ocd-how-do-you-make-a-decision/> is
another condition that might explain a fixation on doubt. Perhaps individuals
in very narrow specialties are especially concerned with reputation and will go
to great lengths to minimize regret or embarrassment, but I don’t think even
careful people act like theorem provers. The world keeps turning and there
is no time for that.
On 7/7/18, 4:06 PM, "Friam on behalf of glen" <friam-boun...@redfish.com on
behalf of geprope...@gmail.com> wrote:
Well, of course you know where I stand on this. That description of 'doubt'
is useless to me because I doubt everything. There is no such thing as
'paralyzing doubt'. I'd lean more towards Marcus answer on that.
Similarly, I don't place 'good thought' in opposition to doubt. To me,
doubt IS good thought. The absence of doubt would be the worst kind of thought.
And I suppose that implies that science includes the active maintenance of
methods by which we doubt/question various assertions.
On July 6, 2018 8:37:38 PM PDT, Nick Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net>
wrote:
>There is another solution to suicidal skepticism which Is to embrace
>scientism but broaden the definition of science. This, I think, is
>CSPeirce's way. We define good thought as any thought that will, in
>the fullness of time ... the very, very fullness of time .. be agreed
>upon. Good thought is thought that, once and for all, assuages doubt.
>By doubt, here, I don't mean entertained doubt. I mean doubt
>sufficiently profound that one cannot, when one needs to, pursue any
>course of action. REAL doubt. Paralyzing doubt.
>
>Now, science is defined as that method, that will be agreed, in the
>very long run to produce good thinking.
>
>Notice that this way out of the scientism debate concedes that a value
>lies at the bottom of scientismicists’ affection for science ... the
>assuaging of REAL doubt.
>
>Therefore, I stipulate that anybody who embraces REAL doubt as a way of
>life is NOT going to be happy with this solution.
--
glen
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