Questions 6 and 7: Is there a way we can figure out which processes are good, and which are not? At this point, the foundation has been laid. Once we’ve discussed what we mean by “reliable,” “good,” and “bad,” very few people maintain a type of relativism in terms of processes that take one toward or away from reality. I ask students their ideas about how to discern good processes from bad processes. Regardless of their responses, I’ll ask them how they know the selection criteria they invoke will enable them to discern what’s a good process and what’s a bad process. With very little prodding,
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