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Let go of your belief that “beliefs” are solid, durable, distinct, continuous, well-defined entities. It is the cause of much misery.pic.twitter.com/fzUP9xNP2J
What does this mean for gaining more and more accurate, informative beliefs? Does this mean we should lower our evidential standards or be less rigorous about our belief-forming processes?
It means that we can understand things more accurately if we apply a more accurate understanding of believing itself.
It doesn’t imply lowering evidential standards; much more often the opposite! But taking it seriously might shake up your ideas about what that means.
Yeah, I'm having a hard time right now seeing how a vaguely defined belief can give us more accurate, useful understanding than a well-defined one.
A more accurate and complex theory of believing has to take into account the fact that most beliefs are vague. Then it can describe how sharpening them up is often a good move.
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