How Does Veritula Work?

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Dennis HackethalOP revised about 2 months ago·#2140
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Decision-Making on Veritula

Expanding on #2112…

If an idea has no pending criticisms, it’s rational to adopt it and irrational to reject it. What reason could you have to reject it? If it has no pending criticisms, then either 1) no reasons to reject it (ie, criticisms) have been suggested or 2) all suggested reasons have been addressed already.

If an idea does have pending criticisms, it’s irrational to adopt it and rational to reject it – by reference to those criticisms. What reason could you have to ignore the pending criticisms and adopt it anyway?

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Zelalem Mekonnen, revised by Dennis HackethalOP about 1 month ago·#2248
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It might be worth stating that the underlying philosophy of Veritula, in conjunction with fallibilism, says that progress is both possible and desirable, and that rational means are the only way to make progress. This means an end to mysticism and the supernatural.

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Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 month ago·#2252

That’s a valid point but doesn’t belong here. I have instead edited a related idea.

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