Your beliefs should be falsifiable. They should have a self-destruct mechanism that you've put a lot of care into and carefully maintain. If you have no self destruct button for your worldview, there's no way to escape what you've created.
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Very true in spirit but few worldviews actually don’t have self destruct buttons though. People eventually leave almost every cult no matter how dogmatic. And almost no worldview has a button that will undo it over a weekend. Losing a worldview is pretty traumatic.
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I disagree. Your beliefs shouldn't be falsifiable , they should be adaptable , able to take on new information without changing the core meaning of that belief system. Self destroying our own beliefs has turn out disastrously for the west. As Nietzsche predicted it would.
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Outright falsifiability is too strong of a criterion.
A better requirement is something like a Bayesian Criterion:
Can we adjust our posterior believes in the validity of a theory, as we collect new data?
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In what way does this approach to belief acquisition allow for the cognitive mechanism of self-deception ?
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hmm
i keep my beliefs quite separate from opinions deduced from facts I accept.
my beliefs are by my definition specifically the things that are NOT falsifiable yet I would choose to accept are true.
my opinions on the other hand I do try to keep falsifiable
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Healthy skepticism, as they say. Why do you believe what you believe? New data & perspectives should be able to influence & change your mind. Also, not falling victim to pure emotionalism. But all this requires introspection & intellectual humility. Not all that common these days
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Agreed. Used to be one of those enlightened youtube ""centrists"". Glad I've grown out of that phase.