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#5585·Dennis HackethalOP, about 4 hours agoSo I don't see acquiring new knowledge as something that sits outside the process and simply overrides the HTV result.
One would reject some explanations for reasons unrelated to HTV. It’s not that one would override a specific HTV result – one wouldn’t even get to that result because one would first make other choices leading to different inputs.
If I gather new info and the problem situation changes to where I already know Pop-Tarts aren’t tart but sweet (eg because I taste test them), then I simply won’t include that guess in the inputs to the program, and I won’t bother varying that guess.
HTV could still be part of the process, but DD’s claim was that all rationality boils down to HTV.
One would reject some explanations for reasons unrelated to HTV. It’s not that one would override a specific HTV result – one wouldn’t even get to that result because one would first make other choices leading to different inputs.
I think this is fair. You can treat new knowledge and criticism as changing the problem situation within which HTV operates, or more narrowly as filtering which explanations still work before applying HTV. I think those are functionally equivalent; if you want to call the latter preference formation outside HTV, I'm fine with that.