Re: There can be no objective justification for our beliefs.


ray_sitf@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> So at the final level of analysis we don't learn that entities are
> the same by looking up the rules of what needs to be the case for such
> entities to be the same. We just decide that this is what counts as
> being the same.

More or less right, though perhaps better put as the point that there
is a way of following a rule which doesn't involve interpretation via
another rule -- and the argument of course is Wittgenstein's in the
Investigations (and has spawned a huge literature on the "rule
following considerations").

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