'Strong opinions weakly held'. Argue what you believe to be true, listen to the opposing side, and if they are right, update your outlook.
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In my childhood, I found my teachers so incoherent that I routinely assumed that everybody who had different opinions than me and no argument to convince me was wrong. (Factually, not a bad heuristic, but socially disastrous, and of course I've often wrongly dismissed ideas.)
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Almost everything in philosophy and science except what I currently believe to have a chance to be true, and including all the wrong things I believed in the past :)
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This reminds me of that video by Kenneth Stanley, where he says{paraphrasing} that when you fail in every way imaginable, the only thing that's left is success.
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Sadly, that is not true. In reality, you mostly just fail. "Don't fail" is usually good advice.
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"To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking." ―William James
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It's complicated.
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As Richard Feynman said about science. Science progress is driven by doubt.
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