@misc{Lexicon of Arguments,
title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 29 Mar 2024},
author = {Poundstone, W.},
subject = {Pollock’s Gas Chamber},
note = {I 215f
Pollock's gas chamber/Poundstone: one can reject belief in more than one way:
1. the light looks green (without information about the color of the gas)
2. Usually things have the color that they have on the screen, therefore there is color TV.
Vs: the second is even weaker than the first. - So there is even a third reason in addition to the sign next to the door.
Being right for the wrong reasons:
Refutation: a) rejecting: simply says that a belief is false
b) undermining: that belief is invalid.
E.g. if you discover that you are a brain in a vat, which is an undermining truth over all beliefs about the world.
>Refutation, >Verification, cf. >Confirmation, >Brains in vat.
N.B.: the belief could then still be true.
Undermining better than rejecting truth.
I 220
Prisoner's Paradox/knowledge paradox: (unexpected execution) the set of beliefs generates its own undermining truth - so there are refutations of refutations.
I 216f
Pollock's gas chamber: undermining Vs rejecting refutation.
>Paradoxes, >Knowledge paradoxes.},
note = { Poundstone I William Poundstone Labyrinths of Reason, NY, 1988 German Edition: Im Labyrinth des Denkens Hamburg 1995
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