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Why Do People Believe True Things?
4 Aug 2024
Why Do People Believe True Things? Interesting argument for an epistemological inversion:
Many people in social epistemology are concerned with the following question: Why do people believe false things? … “The truth about distant or complex matters,” writes Walter Lippmann, “is not self-evident.” Given this, “The pictures inside people’s heads do not automatically correspond with the world outside.”
Reminds me of that Muad’Dib saying:
The mind imposes this framework which it calls ‘reality’. That arbitrary framework has a tendency to be quite independent of what your senses report.
Anthologies: Betterment, Thought Architecture, On Thinking and Reasoning