By: Romeo Stevens

Romeo Stevens — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 19:21:43 +0000

Consistency and coherence (two major positions wrt epistemology) are alluded to here, but there is another source of data: direct experience. You may say: well yeah obviously, but coherence and correspondence in most of us cause us to overwrite areas of direct experience and not keep track of the ways that they actually differ. I’ll give a concrete example with a question:

In your *direct experience* which came first, you or your parents?

It is notable that sometimes people find themselves unable to detect that there are multiple ways of arriving at the answer to this question that give different answers. Some other process reflexively overwrites certain paths.

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By: Romeo Stevens