Intellectual Humility: A Guiding Principle For The Skeptical Movement?

[Duty]

[Sal]

The converse results in walls coming up, just making believers doubling down on their credulity.

[Ranjr]

If you're not skeptical of your own skepticism, you are no skeptic.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

What if you have no reason to be humble.

Asking for a friend.

[Duty]

I'm 67.362% CERTAIN I'm the leading authority here on this topic as I doubt anybody else has made the (fairly considerable) investment of time and effort to read the whole article/paper.

[Rhizomorph13]

I'm 67.362% CERTAIN I'm the leading authority here on this topic as I doubt anybody else has made the (fairly considerable) investment of time and effort to read the whole article/paper.

What's that smell? Oh, virtue signalling.

[Duty]

Nope, I was just trying to be funny...didn't mean to cast an air of superiority, just that I've not done a proper read like that for some time. I don't want fight, in good mood I am, mushroom man.

[Belacqua]

"It is a pity that the ignorant are always so certain whereas the wise are so full of doubt."

I think that anyone who studies the world with an open mind learns to be humble.

Scientists learn how conclusions that seem completely proven by evidence can fall apart nonetheless. History shows that much of what we hold to be true today will seem laughable in the future.

Historians see that systems and ideologies which their adherents took to be inevitable to human nature pass away with time.

Religious people see that there are good people in other religions, and that their own religion doesn't guarantee goodness.

Atheists discover that the views of religious issues they had when they became atheists are overly simple.

The trouble is that people are only tenuously and sporadically rational. All these groups of people hold to their beliefs with more passion than is justified, and filter evidence to suit their preferences. Humility is always justified, and rarely accepted.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Only people as phenomenally smart as I am are able to recognize the virtue of intellectual humility. I know this is true because I thought it up and I’m never wrong.

Boru

[Angrboda]

The people for whom intellectual humility would be of use don't practice it, and those that do don't really need to do so. So where's the utility?