Psi: How Open Minded are You Really?

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We have two choices, if we intend to be at all rational and consistent:

1) Don't accept any claim as likely true until we have sufficient evidence. (This may not take long of course, simple confidence in the source may be enough for mundane claims.)

2) Accept every claim as true until it is proved likely false.

I will stick with choice number 1. Or else I have to believe everything anyone ever says unless it is directly contradicted by my current surroundings and knowledge. And I will have to believe unfalsiable claims forever. Can you imagine how quickly that would get out of control?

But of course, "open minded" people act just like definition 1 almost all of the time, until there's something they really want to be true but have little/no evidence for. Then they switch to 2 temporarily and insult others for not being as inconsistent as them.