Steve to Dave:
I previously offered three scenarios for you consideration in
answerring this question:
"The warranted assertibity of my claim to be an expert horseman will
be tested based on whether or not I can actually ride a horse. What
about my claim that Jesus actually existed about 2000 years ago? What
about my claim that the square root of two cannot be expressed as the
ratio of two integers? What about my
claim that there is probably intelligent life elsewhere in the
universe?"
How are such claims "tested by experience"? I'm skeptical toward your
implicit claim that experience can do this testing of knowledge claims
for us. I think that your appeal to radical empiricism simply doesn't
do much in terms of epistemology.
Ron:
My own response to that scenerio is that is exactly the sort of useful
distinction
made by testing those concepts in experience and it certainly does make a
comment
about how we value or understand experience. Is'nt this the point drawn between
static and dynamic Quality? Is'nt this the "moral" of Pirsigs story, to not
allow ones
thinking to be dominated by concepts that have no corresponding experience.
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