Seth Paskin
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1,271 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 21 Sep
Seth Paskin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And what he's claiming is that the starting point doesn't matter.
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It it's inferential and it's then I think you would probably go so far as it is data constrained.
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So you're constantly refining it with the data that you have.
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But this is where you get to that, you know, some discussion about Bayesian inference process.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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I mean I think he might start talking about what on earth makes you think of it that way.
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If I'm talking about isolating a pinpoint of light, I'm gonna be doing that through something other than my eye.
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But I also want to again, I want to point out that the what you're saying is exactly right in terms of the way he's describing it.
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But to me, it's critical that it's not the case that this going backwards gets you to what the true thing is.
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And that's that's why you would have this foundationalist critique that somehow where you started was what held the whole answer.
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And the mistake that I think you would say you're making there is the one about the deductive logic question: that you have to have the premises that are perfectly true, and then you can have perfect deductions from them.
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But as you pointed out, Wes, that doesn't exist for Peirce because.
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Of well, basically the probabilities involved.
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That simplified logic isn't the way in which everything in the world is apprehended.
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It's not the content of cognitions.
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And so
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Yes, you have that infinite quote unquote regress, but it's not again that going backwards is not how you get get to true things.
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Why is redness simpler than any f object or any f physical thing that I would point to in the world, be it an apple, a couch, a tree, a blade of grass, a dog, my kid?
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Why is redness any different?
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