this sorta reminds me of my personal doctrine of "always being right"
I like always being right and I highly recommend it to all I converse with. It's very simple to attain. All it takes is you must make the best decision about what is right, in the moment, and then be open to any correction. That means, if somebody can convince you reasonably that you were wrong when you thought you were right, you agree with them and thus are once again, right. Sure, you were wrong in the past, but that's past. Try it! Always being right is fun! John On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Matt Kundert <[email protected]>wrote: > > Steve said: > Putnam's analysis of the is-ought problem is a good example > of pragmatism's "combination of fallibilism and antiskepticism." > We subscribe to fallibilism in that none of our beliefs are held > to be immune to criticism and the possibility of needed > correction in light of new evidence and arguments, but our > fallibilism does make us extreme skeptics about the possibility > for knowing anything at all. > > Matt: > This is the excellent lesson taught be Peirce in "The Fixation > of Belief"--Cartesian "radical" doubt is really fake doubt. > Pragmatism since that time has been antiskeptical as in > anti-Cartesian, and to rehabilitate skepticism qua doubt, > Peirce talked about fallibilism. Fallibilism encapsulates the > pragmatist approach to doubt--specific and particular, not > general and total(izing). The closest we get to > re-approaching Cartesian skepticism is in Rorty's figure of > the ironist, one who has "continuing doubts" about her > beliefs--the difference is captured by the "s": "radical > doubt" about a totality transformed into nagging, > particular-belief-attached doubts. > > This fallibilism, and the notion of having to hold some > beliefs in place in order to doubt others that Steve > elaborated, is captured too by Wilfrid Sellars' slogan that > science is that which can place any belief in doubt--just > not all at once (a sentiment and image Pirsig comes close > to in his comment in Lila about science using a pencil). > > Good post. > > Matt > > _________________________________________________________________ > The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with > Hotmail. > > http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccount&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4 > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
