Tuesday, March 07, 2023

A deft dismantlement ……

… One Long Circular Argument - Claremont Review of Books. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… if Dennett’s account of the origin of human thought processes were correct, we could have no reason to suppose that those processes track truth or conform to canons of logical inference. Again, they will appear to do so even if they do not. This undermines any confidence we could have in any idea or argument—including Dennett’s.

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