Have you ever actually heard an response that made you stop and think?

[Angrboda]

Sometimes I think about the implications of an argument I'm making against someone else's position and realizing that the implications aren't flattering for my own position. Then I have to think hard and determine whether or not I'm just engaged in special pleading or not.

The most troubling is when I raise the objection that you can't discern the truth from a feeling or an experience. It raises the question of whether or not my positions aren't simply based on my own feelings and experiences. My rational response is that none of us can be sure that good reasons led us to our conclusions, but the emotional side of me wants to believe that my conclusions are different, that they ARE based on knowably good reasons.