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[Serious] Questions about Belief and Personal Identity
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RE: Questions about Belief and Personal Identity
(June 5, 2021 at 7:51 pm)Belacqua Wrote: The inability to comprehend why sincere and good people might disagree with you is an unfortunate intellectual weakness.

I've always been under the impression that if I had all the facts in my brain that another person does, connected in the same way they do, that I too would arrive at the same or similar conclusion as they have. The value of conversation, therefore, lies in uncovering what it is someone knows and how it's connected to better understand what they're concluding.

I think we underestimate how much sense wrong ideas can make. They can be coherent, logical, and internally valid irrespective of being false. And perhaps they are moreso than right ideas.
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RE: Questions about Belief and Personal Identity - by John 6IX Breezy - June 5, 2021 at 8:03 pm

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