The spirit of the Fun Criterion

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Dennis Hackethal revised about 19 hours ago·#1806·· Collapse

Another problem with the term ‘statement’ is that not every statement encodes knowledge. Only some statements do.

For example, trivial or tautological statements aren’t knowledge, neither in the Popperian nor common sense of the word.

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Dennis Hackethal, about 16 hours ago·#1811·· Collapse

@edwin-de-wit In light of the potential shortcomings of Deutsch’s definitions of knowledge, I’ve revised my criticism, resulting in #1806. See if you want to counter-criticize it.