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"Entertaining" conflicting views and holding them are different things. If you can't "entertain" conflicting views, you can't properly weigh the arguments and c
by delinka 11y ago
"Entertaining" conflicting views and holding them are different things. If you can't "entertain" conflicting views, you can't properly weigh the arguments and come to an informed decision.
However, people hold contradictory views all the time. Religion is a fine example.
- saint_fiasco 11y agoEntertaining views without holding them is much more difficult than it seems. The question of whether it's possible to understand a proposition without believing it at least provisionally used to be hotly debated by philosophers. The experimental evidence suggests that it's not possible http://lesswrong.com/lw/k4/do_we_believe_everything_were_told/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/k4/do_we_believe_everything_were_tol... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8366418 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8366418
- zo1 11y agoNice finds, reading through them now.