(November 3, 2014 at 9:28 pm)Heywood Wrote:(November 3, 2014 at 1:02 pm)Faith No More Wrote: It's when you have confidence in something that if you examined more deeply, you wouldn't have confidence in. I meant that voter ID laws give the appearance of having a legitimate voting system without truly addressing the potential for abuse inside the system.
Sounds to me superficial confidence means you can dismiss people's confidence because you believe they would reach the same conclusions as you only if they thought like you.
Stop telling people what conclusions they will draw.
Not exactly. He's equating superficial confidence with shallow understanding leading to a facile, false approach.
He's not telling you what conclusion to draw, he's telling you you're overestimating the importance of the problem.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
