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Why hinge epistemology sucks (Patreon)

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2023-11-14 18:29:19
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Original video: https://youtu.be/rbaD66oTvuo

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Why hinge epistemology sucks

0:00 - introduction 0:36 - skepticism and pragmatism 8:48 - is rationality self-destructive? 13:17 - animal doubt

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Italo Giardina

Descartes cogito era sum instantiates a commitment to linguistic centric codes that forms a humanistic self category distinct form a self category of another linguistic group or animal communication. So in-group belief qua linguistic construction seems meaningful as distinct from believing to understanding a dog claiming to have paws. A hinge is a semantic vague boundary to prevent a person claiming to peers with confidence that the dog has a meaningful justification of entitlement based on relaying to the master it needs its nails clipped. The evidence of hingyness is If skeptical about my language it seems a slippery slope to absolute isolationism in society. It happens when persons become alienated from their means of social production and relations. So anti skepticism in a system of predation entails threat management response which is to have bare minimum beliefs through comparison with similar others for emotional regulation and appropriate behaviour all things equal. Scepticism a rarefied state of affairs that is agent specific as so then is not individuated but institutionally driven through forms of elite agents having authority to question authority on a field of enquiry. This places scepticism within complex power systems or world systems theory that had its emergence in pre socratic city states. Slaves in those states of affairs had no agency to be sceptical of their masters will and so must have bio power beliefs of be eliminated from their right to life. A slave master's rational enquiry if self destructive could bring down the entire social class system and so her peers intervene. So rather than hinge epistemology its political economic epistemology which if all biological structures are deterministic without free will would suggest genuine first person scepticism is an illusion or madness. social disintegration and reconstruction as social realism that supervenes Darwinian evolution suggest scepticism operates high up in the food chain of mammalian brains but is group constructed as even certain species have it embedded if threat is to be mitigated through inter subjective comparison so be wary of piles of food for it could lead to an existential threat but this is brought to another level for hominid brains where the instinct is driven up the social hierarchy to embed in a select elite having the property of scepticism similar to animals who have sentinels whilst the group forages for food.