You can keep any number of mutually contradictory beliefs in your head at once, so long as you don't examine them.
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Do mutually contradictory beliefs necessarily come in pairs? Or can contradiction be multi-dimensional?
It's possible for n beliefs to yield a contradiction, when no set of n-1 of them would. But I bet it's not common for n > 3, for the same reason it's rare for large numbers of bullets to hit the same spot on a target.
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It's interesting. It means one can't "scale up" contradictions from n to n+1. It also means the consistency of your existing beliefs in harmony can suddenly come into question with an introduction of a new belief one day, which seems plausible. Thanks for the answer.
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Assuming this is correct, it provides a good way to reduce apparent contradictions down to the minimum set to find resolution. Trying to resolve a larger set of ideas that cause the contradiction to exist would likely be harder to resolve. Like checkers v. Chinese checkers.
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People's blind spots are not random - often plugging one blind spot would eliminate a whole set of their beliefs
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