I think it’s about the extent you have reason to believe you trust authority without evidence. What if someone meets ‘omega’ who is as 100% trustable as the laws of gravity, in their empirical experience? Then, it’s 100% rational to trust them, perhaps over their own senses, which are sometimes illusory.
I think it’s about the extent you have reason to believe you trust authority without evidence. What if someone meets ‘omega’ who is as 100% trustable as the laws of gravity, in their empirical experience? Then, it’s 100% rational to trust them, perhaps over their own senses, which are sometimes illusory.
Induce fear to get people to stick with the status quo or make a non-choice, and frustrated anger to get to them to take risks. When people are told something without explanation, they might react with fear out of awe, or anger out of frustration that you haven’t presented something rational to them. Vice-versa is possible too. Therefore, I would predict that the inferential distance doesn’t have a 1:1 relationship with the uptake of that information.