(February 10, 2015 at 1:38 pm)robvalue Wrote: I see. Does he have a big stake in HJ then?
Once a person declares that believing otherwise is silly, then one typically feels the need to maintain it in order to save face. So he does have a stake in it now, regardless of how he started.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.