Where Form 5495 Opinions 2017-2023

I have often been puzzled by two related questions why do people so rarely change their minds on important matters and why nevertheless do people think that they are reasonable and think that those who disagree with them are not reasonable now another way of phrasing the question is how and why do people think they know things now what does it mean to know and in everyday language we there are really two conditions for using the word know one is the absence of doubt and the other is that the proposition in which you believe must be true we can't say that he knows something that's wrong but in fact subjectively the only thing that matters is the absence of doubt and there is no subjective difference between true and false beliefs and there are many false beliefs so we think we know many things that in fact are not the case and this is generally true and it's if you think about that we are to some extent perverted by where I our idea that we know think through science but in fact there are many different ways of knowing things and people who are deeply religious and not particularly scientific they know things and there is no psychological difference between the way they know things and the way that we consumers of science know things the reason I believe in global warming and in in the fact that the earth is round well have seen pictures of the earth being round but but the reason I believe in most of the thing that I believe is that I've been told that by people I trust and exactly the same is true for religious people who believe in things that scientists do not believe in and they...