What is a certificate?

This article is from the cycle, you may have missed something.

This article is part of the series  " Entertaining Cartography ( A Brief Introduction to Rationality) "





Why does it seem to us that reality works in a certain way? Where do the beliefs about how the phenomena around us work? Should we trust all such beliefs equally?





Where does the Map come from?

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Therefore, we can safely say: if the forecast of the map coincided with the territory, this is definitely an argument in favor of this map ( certificate for ). With the caveat that a number of factors influence the strength of an argument. I plan to consider these factors in a separate series of posts (there will be a link here).








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