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Suppose Jop and Dop are students dating. They are divided on two issues: whether it is more difficult to get the best grades in economic or philosophical classes and whether they should move in together this summer. The first disagreement is on the truth of a claim: is the claim (or belief) “It is more difficult to obtain high-level marks in economics classes compared to philosophy classes” is true or not? The second disagreement concerns an action: should we move in together or not (the action – enter together)? Quote the first type of conflict of opinion; the second type of disunity of action. With these points in mind, we can formulate the primary questions about the theory of knowledge of disagreement. Others agreed that personal information can act as symmetry breakers, giving the subject a reason to base one`s own opinion, but denies that such a benefit would occur in reasonably idealized cases of disagreement with peers (Matheson 2015a). The use of personal data to disregard the opinion of your interlocutor would not be contrary to independence, so the defender of the Equal Weight View does not have to disagree on this point. Intuitively, Eve should give up believing that the shares are $43 if she learns that Ava disagrees. Given the differences of opinion, she should not believe in any part of the bill either and no one else should sit at the table. Many disagreements are one for one: one person is with another non-voice, and as far as they know, they are the only two to have an opinion on the subject. Lisa thinks she and Marie should move in together; Then Lisa discovers that Mary has the opposite opinion. Bob and his sister Teri disagree on whether their father was having an affair when they were children.

In this case, they know that others have the answer – on the one hand, their father – but for different reasons, the opinions of others are not accessible. Finally, independence was theoretically motivated by examining the type of argument that would be allowed to be rejected. In particular, a refusal of independence was envisaged to allow a problematic type of begging, allowing him to use his own reasoning to conclude that his colleague is wrong. Something doesn`t seem to be in order with the following reasoning: “My peer doesn`t believe- (P), but I`ve concluded that my peer is wrong” or “I thought”(S” was my peer, but “S” doesn`t think(P), and I think that ” (P) is not my peer” (see Christensen (2011). Independence forbids both, to block reason, to believe that you are mistaken in discovering disagreement. Jonathan Matheson is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Florida. He is the author of The Epistemology of Disagrement (Palgrave) and co-editor of The Ethics of Belief: Individual and Social (Oxford University Press). He has also written many articles on epistemology and religious philosophy. jonathandmatheson.wordpress.com One thing the geometric average does not do is that credences can be aggregated independently of each other on different sentences. (Remember that this was something that treated cunning and pettit as desideratum for aggregation of judgment.) For example, our beliefs about the probability of hail could influence how we aggregate our beliefs about the probability of rain. Instead, a more comprehensive approach to aggregation is needed.

This is an important lesson for approaches to social knowledge theory, which focus on specific topics of interest in dealing with disagreements and peer testimony (Russell et al. 2015). Applied to our framework, the justification denies independence. In cases where you think strongly support the first-rate evidence p, this fact can be used to re-evaluate your interlocutor`s epistemic login information. Independence has only allowed “outside” information of disagreement to influence the evaluation of peerhood registration information, but here the fact that your interlocutor agrees with something you have the right to believe gives you a reason to express your opinion on this issue.