Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to Roderick T. Long. Yeah, what you see in the post is just an unstructured list intended specifically for conference participants: some of the formulations I list are too long to read out, or too hard to process, so I threw them into a list. …

Oh, I see. I was misunderstanding the structure of the argument. LikeLike

I’m assuming a context in which the instructor regards the structure of her own class as justified, and wants to induce the student to believe the same. Adoption of Neutralism4 prevents her from responding to a challenge to justify the structure….

In reply to Roderick T. Long. Reference to indoctrination at 4 doesn’t seem necessary for deriving 5 anyway. LikeLike

In reply to Roderick T. Long. Step 4 of the first argument. LikeLike

Step 4 isn’t obvious to me. Why does the teacher’s answer have to be one that bypasses the requirements of epistemic justification? LikeLike