maybe doublethink is good maybe if the truth is too easily subverted it's good to fence it around with lies that you have to pretend to believe or be punished damned hard to believe it though
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the difference between believing something you don't know for certain to be true and treating something you don't know for certain to be true as true provisionally is also interesting
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the difference there is...? the degree of vigor of your faith? provisional belief is deliberately thin faith?
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if the thickness is zero is it still faith? we're immersed in things where we have to pick a working position just to operate, how often do we unnecessarily invest that choice with faith?
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the limit case is faith ---> hypothesis as thickness goes to 0.
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the former is faith or hope. the latter is delusion. are they both varieties of double think?
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i think so yeah, the negative/positive difference between them almost doesn't seem to signify
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yeah, that's what I settled on too. there are qualitative (or at least instrumental) differences between them though. hope can be useful. delusion seems uniformly harmful.
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yeah, if nothing else active dismissal of inconvenient evidence is a filthy habit
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