[brightball]

The issue generally comes down to the source of trust. You're trusting your intuition or you're trusting a source saying something else is also trustworthy.

[pklausler]

And there's our little problem there in a nutshell: thinking that those are the only two choices, my ignorant assumptions and those of somebody else.

Back in Enlightenment days, people also consulted empirical reality.

[AstralStorm]

There are also ignorant assumptions that are or aren't generally accepted. As in by many people. These we call society.