Re: Intellectual Honesty
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I'm not talking about scientific claims about the sky being blue or other similar types of knowledge. This pertains more to religous and philosophical --abstract-- knowledge.
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You should put that in your original claim, then; if you're going to rely on as nitpicky a definition of conviction as you must in order for your argument to be about something, then you should also say that your argument doesn't really apply to probably 99% of what there is in the world to have convictions about.
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To believe that I really don't know what is true is the only honest belief. If paralysis is the result then so be it.
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Really? Then why waste time on philosophy at all? What do you gain from thinking about it if you can't actually learn anything?
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