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Thoughtlets. LX.
Bit by bit, I’ll be publishing from the draft of my Masters thesis, an account of belief acquisition and maintenance concerning not what we believe, but how we believe. An excerpt follows: One problem with evaluating scholarly claims, such as the consensus on climate science, is that most — and by far the vast majority Continue reading
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Thoughtlets .x.
I’ve noticed that those who urge others to question authority are least willing to have others question theirs. Continue reading
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Thoughtlets .iv.
During the Reformation, the authority of the church was taken from the hands of priests and distributed to the general populace. During the Enlightenment the process of distributing knowledge of the sciences to the general populace through education began and continues to this day. And we’ve an increasingly literate population the world over, accelerated by Continue reading
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