marginalium noun

the notes one makes in the margins.

A short note on

why do people believe true things?

August 4, 2024

source: www.conspicuouscognition.com

by Dorian Minors

I did brain science at Cambridge. Now I'm a behaviour science professor. Read my shit.

Why Do People Believe True Things? Interesting argument for an epistemological inversion:

Many people in social epistemology are concerned with the following question: Why do people believe false things? … “The truth about distant or complex matters,” writes Walter Lippmann, “is not self-evident.” Given this, “The pictures inside people’s heads do not automatically correspond with the world outside.”

Reminds me of that Muad’Dib saying:

The mind imposes this framework which it calls ‘reality’. That arbitrary framework has a tendency to be quite independent of what your senses report.

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