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Jon Awbrey<p>Tenacity, Authority, Plausibility, Inquiry<br>• <a href="https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02/14/tenacity-authority-plausibility-inquiry-a/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/02</span><span class="invisible">/14/tenacity-authority-plausibility-inquiry-a/</span></a><br>• <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/inquiryintoinquiry.bsky.social/post/3li5nmqdc3s2a" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/inquiryintoin</span><span class="invisible">quiry.bsky.social/post/3li5nmqdc3s2a</span></a></p><p>Re: Peter Cameron • Mathematics and Logic<br>• <a href="https://cameroncounts.wordpress.com/2010/01/03/mathematics-and-logic/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cameroncounts.wordpress.com/20</span><span class="invisible">10/01/03/mathematics-and-logic/</span></a></p><p>My favorite polymathematician, Charles Sanders Peirce, gave a fourfold classification of what he called “methods of fixing belief”, or “settling opinion”, most notably and seminally in his paper, “The Fixation of Belief” (1877). Adjusting his nomenclature very slightly, if only for the sake of preserving a mnemonic rhyme scheme, we may refer to his four types as Tenacity, Authority, Plausibility (à priori pleasing praiseworthiness), and full‑fledged Scientific Inquiry.</p><p>Reference —</p><p>Peirce, C.S. (1877), “The Fixation of Belief”, Popular Science Monthly 12, 1–15.<br>• <a href="https://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/fixation/fx-frame.htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycs</span><span class="invisible">p/fixation/fx-frame.htm</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Peirce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Peirce</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Logic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Logic</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Belief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Belief</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Opinion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Opinion</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Knowledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Knowledge</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Inference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Inference</span></a> <br><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/BeliefFixation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BeliefFixation</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Method" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Method</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Tenacity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tenacity</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Authority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Authority</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Plausibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plausibility</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Inquiry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Inquiry</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p>The Creepy Weirdos™ are juking the stats by getting the synthetic machines to emit plausible untruths.</p><p>“It sounds kind of correct” is the worst kind of wrong.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/plausibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plausibility</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-anne-frank-blame-holocaust" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">futurism.com/the-byte/ai-anne-</span><span class="invisible">frank-blame-holocaust</span></a></p>
Crypto News<p>Gemini Challenges SEC Lawsuit on Lending Program, Pushes for Oral Hearing - Lawyers for cryptocurrency exchange Gemini have filed a motion seeking to dismiss ... - <a href="https://news.bitcoin.com/gemini-challenges-sec-lawsuit-on-lending-program-pushes-for-oral-hearing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.bitcoin.com/gemini-challe</span><span class="invisible">nges-sec-lawsuit-on-lending-program-pushes-for-oral-hearing/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/genesisglobalcapital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genesisglobalcapital</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/saletransactions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>saletransactions</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/inconsistencies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inconsistencies</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/cryptocurrency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cryptocurrency</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/lendingprogram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lendingprogram</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/loanagreement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>loanagreement</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/securitiesact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>securitiesact</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/plausibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plausibility</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/unregistered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unregistered</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/allegations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>allegations</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/oralhearing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oralhearing</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/securities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>securities</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/challenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>challenge</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/dismissal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dismissal</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/geminisec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geminisec</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/violation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>violation</span></a></p>
JacBellon<p>Just a quick reminder that</p><p>a) we don't all know the same things<br>b) we can't all know the same things<br>c) some things are easier to know than others<br>d) it's a great time to emphasise that people should know about what technical object can (and cannot) do (speaking of generative AI, not of the great technology of cloud transportation)</p><p>d) inquisitive, analytic, truthsearching mind and appreciation for art do not at all need to exclude each other</p><p>Find the comments to this picture in the comments</p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/AIart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIart</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/epistemology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>epistemology</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/misinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>misinformation</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/scripts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scripts</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/expectation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>expectation</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/probability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>probability</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/plausibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plausibility</span></a></p>
Andrea Margiovanni<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Plausibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plausibility</span></a> is different from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/truth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>truth</span></a>. In some time few will remember it. </p><p> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chatGPT</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a></p>