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Given the number of unusual beliefs we have today (e.g. equality, areligiosity), popularity seems like a very bad proxy for truth.
by concordDance 4y ago
Given the number of unusual beliefs we have today (e.g. equality, areligiosity), popularity seems like a very bad proxy for truth.
- yawpitch 4y agoThose are, indeed, historically unusual beliefs… though the rise in their popularity being directly coincident with the spread of more-than-minimal literacy and the slow degradation of traditional and institutional obstacles to higher education does imply that inequality and religiosity are even worse proxies for “truth”.
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