I found this post, and the rest of the series thus far, quite interesting. I still feel very confused about this whole topic, but I think that’s more to do with the topic and/or my intuitions and lack of background, and less to do with your arguments or writing.
At the moment, it looks like the post has 12 votes but only 8 karma, suggesting there’ve been some downvotes. But there aren’t any comments highlighting key flaws or counterarguments (at least, I don’t think MichaelStJules’ comments do that). I’d personally be quite interested to hear about whether people are seeing important flaws in the arguments made—as opposed to just disliking discussion of anti-realism or something like that—and, if so, what those flaws might be.
I don’t find the arguments fully convincing myself, but I don’t know if I can articulate why (or if there’s a good reason at all), and I don’t know if I put much weight on my failure to feel convinced.
Thanks! Yeah, I’m curious about the same questions regarding the strong downvotes. Since I wrote “it works well as a standalone piece,” I guess I couldn’t really complain if people felt that the post was unconvincing on its own. I think the point I’m making in the “Begging the question” subsection only works if one doesn’t think of anti-realism as nihilism/anything goes. I only argued for that in previous posts.
(If the downvotes were because readers are tired of the topic or thought that the discussion of Huemer’s argument was really dry, the good news is that I have only 1 post left for the time being, and it’s going to be a dialogue, so perhaps more engaging than this one.)
I found this post, and the rest of the series thus far, quite interesting. I still feel very confused about this whole topic, but I think that’s more to do with the topic and/or my intuitions and lack of background, and less to do with your arguments or writing.
At the moment, it looks like the post has 12 votes but only 8 karma, suggesting there’ve been some downvotes. But there aren’t any comments highlighting key flaws or counterarguments (at least, I don’t think MichaelStJules’ comments do that). I’d personally be quite interested to hear about whether people are seeing important flaws in the arguments made—as opposed to just disliking discussion of anti-realism or something like that—and, if so, what those flaws might be.
I don’t find the arguments fully convincing myself, but I don’t know if I can articulate why (or if there’s a good reason at all), and I don’t know if I put much weight on my failure to feel convinced.
Thanks! Yeah, I’m curious about the same questions regarding the strong downvotes. Since I wrote “it works well as a standalone piece,” I guess I couldn’t really complain if people felt that the post was unconvincing on its own. I think the point I’m making in the “Begging the question” subsection only works if one doesn’t think of anti-realism as nihilism/anything goes. I only argued for that in previous posts.
(If the downvotes were because readers are tired of the topic or thought that the discussion of Huemer’s argument was really dry, the good news is that I have only 1 post left for the time being, and it’s going to be a dialogue, so perhaps more engaging than this one.)