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Re:Belief Reasoning with Subjective Logic by danielam on Monday December 11, 2017 @01:47PM (#15899236)
Yes, I read that passage and was left irritated by the philosophical mediocrity of it. Name-dropping Kant only makes matters worse given that his conceptualism is incoherent.

The subjective/objective distinction is problematic. Obviously, knowing agents are always subjects -- something has to be doing the knowing -- but knowledge of that presupposes that the subject is able to know the world as it is in the first place.

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Re:Belief Reasoning with Subjective Logic by blueprint on Monday December 11, 2017 @04:52PM (#15900847)
All subjects exist in their environment. Their own individual truths are unique just as they are.

Suppose you look through a bucket of polluted water. It's difficult to see through it. Heck, it's difficult to tell what's even IN the bucket because the water is murky. If the water is clean, and you shine a light into it, then, things in it are visible.

The analogy is to the degree of truthfulness of an individual's consciousness. The higher the truthfulness, the higher the degree of precision with which they can make confirmations about what exists as it is.

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