Re:Marshmallow Test Fails to Replicate
by darby_nine on Monday August 05, 2024 @09:55AM
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> an obvious counter-example is an explanation that happens to be coincidentally correct
How can you establish "correctness" without something like the scientific method? How do you even bind loosely-defined english to verifiable claims to real-life referents without agreeing with others on terms? No, you're chosen simple, comforting delusion over anything resembling objective truth.
> This seems like an attack on the notion of objective truth
Yes, truth is an apriori concept; objective truth is a silly delusion. Coherence is generally a much stronger concept anyway.
Re:Marshmallow Test Fails to Replicate
by zarathustreal on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @07:43PM
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Correctness (of a given assertion) doesn’t need to be established to exist
This is false, an obvious counter-example is an explanation that happens to be coincidentally correct (without being derived from any science)
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This seems like an attack on the notion of objective truth which while interesting in the abstract, is not particularly interesting to me personally.