So like, sometimes when the answer seems vague it’s because there are actually two questions? Like, “am I good at music” can be answered in relation to the entire world or to ones friend group, or specifically focusing on music theory versus performance versus composition versus taste, so there’s no meaningful (one word) response; it’s always possible to doubt reassurance because one can look at a slightly different question.
At least, that’s what I think I get from your penultimate paragraph. I don’t understand your first two paragraphs. I think your first paragraph is saying: the opinions of individuals doesn’t definitively answer yes or no, because you need an authority. Second paragraph: We only experience bias with personal and not scientific/political questions because we are more emotionally involved with the formal, which also(?) lack an authority to give a definitive answer.
Is that accurate?
I usually interpret this as action. When one is doubting whether one is good enough to get into some school, it doesn’t really matter to evaluate goodness because the correct action is still usually to apply/audition, viz. applying/auditioning dominates. And a negative result doesn’t justify hating oneself because self-hatred is unproductive, viz. self-neutrality dominates.
So like, sometimes when the answer seems vague it’s because there are actually two questions? Like, “am I good at music” can be answered in relation to the entire world or to ones friend group, or specifically focusing on music theory versus performance versus composition versus taste, so there’s no meaningful (one word) response; it’s always possible to doubt reassurance because one can look at a slightly different question.
At least, that’s what I think I get from your penultimate paragraph. I don’t understand your first two paragraphs. I think your first paragraph is saying: the opinions of individuals doesn’t definitively answer yes or no, because you need an authority. Second paragraph: We only experience bias with personal and not scientific/political questions because we are more emotionally involved with the formal, which also(?) lack an authority to give a definitive answer.
Is that accurate?
I usually interpret this as action. When one is doubting whether one is good enough to get into some school, it doesn’t really matter to evaluate goodness because the correct action is still usually to apply/audition, viz. applying/auditioning dominates. And a negative result doesn’t justify hating oneself because self-hatred is unproductive, viz. self-neutrality dominates.