From: Paul Turner (paul@turnerbc.co.uk)
Date: Sun Jul 31 2005 - 13:19:12 BST
Sam,
>> Paul: I'm sorry but I really don't see, by what you've said so far, how
>> honesty structures knowledge. Can you elaborate on this?
>
<snip>
Hence, I would say, that there is an internal relationship
>between honesty and truth, ie the perception of truth requires honesty. Put
>differently, the perception of intellectual Quality is a function of the
>virtues of the intellectual pattern doing the perceiving. If those
>intellectual patterns are structured by honesty then they will have higher
>Quality than those which haven't.
>
>Is that any clearer?
Paul: Yes. In another post you have elaborated on your use of honesty to
mean having the attitude that "I could be wrong." I think this is to
identify the Dynamic aspect of intellect i.e. the willingness to change or,
in my borrowed terminology, the propensity of a web to reweave. However, I
believe I have correctly described the static aspect of intellect as the
organisation of beliefs into justificatory relationships, the centres of
which are GPTs. A balance between the two "forces" is necessary, I would
think.
Regards
Paul
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