Entertaining views without holding them is much more difficult than it seems. The question of whether it's possible to understand a proposition without believi

Entertaining 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