[lit-ideas] Re: lit-ideas Digest V6 #246
- From: John Wager <jwager@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 23:33:33 -0600
dsavory@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Whether or not any of the intelligentsia believes it, it is certainly
a commonly-held notion that decisions may be made dispassionately. And
with the afore-cited research we may now sally forth to engage those
commoners and tell the burden of proof is upon them.
But if you are willing to give them the "burden of truth," aren't you
conceding that YOU at least will look at their reasons in a somewhat
dispassionate way?
On the other hand, if NOTHING they say would sway you from your
passionately held decision to hold this belief, what purpose would any
"proof" serve?
The only other alternative I can see is that somehow the "decision" to
believe something (with or without evidence) is not "really" a decision.
That just seems false to me, but then again, if beliefs ARE passionately
held decisions, I WOULD say that, wouldn't I?, and nothing would
dissuade me from such a "decision."
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explained by incompetence and ignorance."
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John Wager jwager@xxxxxxxxxx
River Grove IL, USA
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