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The persuasiveness puzzle about bootstrapping
2020
Ratio
This paper aims at resolving a puzzle about the persuasiveness of bootstrapping. On the one hand, bootstrapping is not a persuasive method of settling questions about the reliability of a source. On the other hand, our beliefs that our sense apparatus is reliable is based on other empirically formed beliefs, that is, they are acquired via a presumably complex bootstrapping process. I will argue that when we doubt the reliability of a source, bootstrapping is not a persuasive method for coming
doi:10.1111/rati.12253
pmid:32103840
pmcid:PMC7027492
fatcat:qh7oa7vjszdbldq4sjghvgimvq