Thanks, I’m always looking for sneaky ways to reduce inferential distances with my Facebook friends. My subversive anti-faith sermon posted with this article was:
On Christmas day, 1861, Lincoln’s ability to be skeptical of his own intuitions helped him avert war with Britain.
It is easy to assert, without evidence, what we believe, hope, or wish to be true. It is more difficult, as our human biases compel us to dismiss dissenting voices, to properly doubt, to give reality a fair hearing, and to come to a conclusion at odds with who we were the day before.
Thanks, I’m always looking for sneaky ways to reduce inferential distances with my Facebook friends. My subversive anti-faith sermon posted with this article was:
On Christmas day, 1861, Lincoln’s ability to be skeptical of his own intuitions helped him avert war with Britain.
It is easy to assert, without evidence, what we believe, hope, or wish to be true. It is more difficult, as our human biases compel us to dismiss dissenting voices, to properly doubt, to give reality a fair hearing, and to come to a conclusion at odds with who we were the day before.
EDIT: Typo correction; Lincoln ≠ 1961.