Holding One's Own

Abstract

There is an antinomy with regards to regulative norms of inquiry. On the one hand, there is what I will call the assessment rule (AR), which is that one's commitments must reflect how well those commitments survive critical scrutiny. On the other hand, there is what I call the fiduciary/stability requirement, which is that for views to be adequately articulated and defended, its proponents must maintain commitment to the views. I propose the virtue of holding one's own and the notion of an experiment in bullet-biting as a synthetic solution to the antinomy of norms.

Keywords: Philosophy, Argumentation, Metaphilosophy