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Why do I believe strongly even when I’ll likely end up wrong (medium.com)
2 points by zhanwei 3258 days ago
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I like it. Many epistemological systems crumble when subjected to their own analytical techniques. (This is a parlor trick they teach philosophy undergrads.) It's hard to do that when you start out by positing the incompleteness of your own knowledge.