Aaron Brinton

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Title Created Updated Claim
Inference 2026-02-25 2026-02-25 Inference is deduction. There is no other form of inference.
The Bigger Problem of Induction 2026-02-25 2026-02-25 Induction does not describe any actual process of reasoning.
Criticism 2026-02-11 2026-02-26 Criticism is the process of actively attempting to expose errors in a conjecture.
Critical Preference 2026-02-10 2026-02-26 Critical preference is the rational retention of the best unrefuted explanation.
About 2026-01-28 2026-01-28 I'm fallible, just like you.
Competence 2026-01-28 2026-02-11 Competence is the ability to perform successfully, not knowledge.
Counterfactuals 2026-01-28 2026-01-28 A counterfactual is a claim about how outcomes would differ under non-actual conditions.
Information 2026-01-28 2026-02-11 Information is structured data, not knowledge.
Rejecting Arbitrary Claims 2025-10-10 2026-02-11 Arbitrary claims cannot have epistemic status.
Objective Morality 2025-10-08 2026-02-26 Morality is necessarily objective.
The Is Ought Problem 2025-10-08 2025-10-08 No descriptive claim can entail a prescriptive claim.
The Problem of Induction 2025-10-04 2026-02-26 No amount of observations can justify a universal claim.
The Trilemma of Justification 2025-10-04 2026-01-06 Justification cannot be the foundation of knowledge.
Epistemic Morality 2025-10-01 2026-02-11 The distinction between truth and error is the sole objective foundation of morality.
Explanation 2025-09-29 2026-02-11 An explanation is a conjecture that constrains what could happen otherwise.
Justified True Belief 2025-09-29 2026-02-11 Justified true belief mistakes a psychological state for an epistemic status.
Knowledge 2025-09-29 2026-02-11 Knowledge is a set of explanatory conjectures that have survived sustained error correction.
Fallibility 2023-11-30 2026-01-28 Fallibility is the possibility of being wrong.
Universal Fallibility 2023-11-30 2026-02-11 All persons are fallible and cannot claim complete certainty.