Is your belief that beliefs should be falsifiable itself falsifiable?
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Yes. Good explanations should always supersede bad ones. Fallibilism is no exception.
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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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How would you know if the core of your belief corresponds to reality then?
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Also corollary: Leave others a line of retreat when confronting their beliefs, so that they are not forced to dig in; leave them space to reposition.
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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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sad this basic insight is not understood by ~97% of the public.
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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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Why do you have a category of things that can't be adjusted based on evidence but have more epistemic states than "unknown"?
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