Skip to content
Carmelics
TopicsThinkersChangesContributorsLoading account…

    Carmelics

    A reasoning platform. Break down any belief into clear reasons, explore both sides, and weigh the evidence honestly.

    Navigate

    • Topics
    • Search
    • Recent Changes
    • Contribute
    • How It Works
    • Glossary
    • Thinkers
    • Contributors
    • About
    • Statistics
    • Terms
    • Privacy

    Database

    Statements
    —
    Perspectives
    —
    Topics
    —

    Press ? for keyboard shortcuts

    LoyalLoyalJusticeJustice
    Made withinDC&Austin
    Statements
    321,452
    Perspectives
    108,905
    Topics
    42
    Home/Original/inverse
    See Original
    Inverse View

    It is not the case that Any agent who has the power to do something must believe himself to have that power.

    ?Set your confidence on the premises below to see your aggregate.

    Reasons For

    2 perspectives
    Reason for 1 of 2
    ?
    • 1.Agents routinely possess capacities they have never exercised and have no epistemic access to, as Ryle's dispositional analysis of abilities demonstrates.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.A disposition can be real and causally efficacious without the possessor having any belief about it, as shown by unconscious competencies in skill acquisition research.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Reason for 2 of 2
    ?
    • 1.Frankfurt's cases demonstrate that agents can act from powers they mistakenly believe are absent, as when a coerced agent acts freely without recognizing their own uncoerced will.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.If an agent can exercise a power while believing they lack it, then belief in the power is neither necessary nor constitutive of its possession.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Reasons Against

    1 perspective
    Reason against
    ?
    • Genuine possession of a power is accompanied by the agent's belief that the agent possesses that power.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Next step

    Based on where you are in your exploration

    Strongest counterpoint
    Explore the most compelling reason on the other side.