{"id":5604,"date":"2013-02-27T12:33:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T20:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=5604"},"modified":"2013-02-27T12:33:12","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T20:33:12","slug":"something-poorly-understood-about-skeptical-philosophers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/something-poorly-understood-about-skeptical-philosophers\/","title":{"rendered":"Something poorly understood about skeptical philosophers&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Something poorly understood about skeptical philosophers (Hume, Sextus Empiricus, Huet, Montaigne, Pyrrho &amp; the Pyrrhonian skeptics) is that their skepticism tends to be directed at contemporary experts, rather than traditions, which they tend to follow as a default strategy. And the crowds against which they stand up are the crowds of &#8220;experts&#8221;, or the masses infatuated with &#8220;expert&#8221; driven ideas.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>[ Note 1- This is in response to a question by Adam Gurri who was wondering whether there was an inconsistency between being independent and skeptical, yet respecting the &#8220;inner&#8221; information in the time-tested thanks to the Lindy Effect.]<\/p>\n<p>[Note 2- The &#8220;skeptics&#8221; of today do the exact opposite: an agglomeration of &#8220;light&#8221; intellectuals going against traditions but not against experts.]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151361586593375&amp;id=13012333374\">Something poorly&#8230; | Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something poorly understood about skeptical philosophers (Hume, Sextus Empiricus, Huet, Montaigne, Pyrrho &amp; the Pyrrhonian skeptics) is that their skepticism tends to be directed at contemporary experts, rather than traditions, which they tend to follow as a default strategy. And the crowds against which they stand up are the crowds of &#8220;experts&#8221;, or the masses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[697,698,699,696],"class_list":["post-5604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contributors","tag-huet","tag-montaigne","tag-pyrrho","tag-sextus-empiricus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5606,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5604\/revisions\/5606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}