Re: Israel Suspends Ties With Vatican

sheldonlg <sheldonlg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That's gotta be true too, even if I didn't know how to prove it.

Using i to represent delta x (I don't have a delta key), and lim meaning
limit as i approaches zero (the change becomes infinitesmal)
....

First, I wrote in the subjunctive because I knew the proof.

Second, you miss the point. The book gained my trust. I wouldn't need
the proof to believe it. Same way I believe what I read in a textbook
without independently proving it.

Kind of like you believing a history book (if you do believe that book)
without checking each fact. But more so, because here the source's
primary topic was repeatedly confirmed. The history book I'm trusting
only on the weight of a general rule I developed about published
textbooks.

Which is how reliabilism got into the conversation. Admittedly
reliabilism is inductive, but then so is another justification system

The example you chose is not inductive. It is deductive.

Induction is believing the book in general or a kind of book in general
or your parents in general on the basis of a sampling of facts you were
able to confirm. Reliabilism is inductive.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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