@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 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=223840} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=223840} }