How To Discover When We’re Mistaken

How To Discover When We’re Mistaken June 25, 2016

How to Discover When We're Mistaken

Commenter Ian offered this statement, which is inspired by something that J. S. Mill wrote:

Every reasonable person will admit that some of the things they believe may be false, but nobody knows which things they are (or else they would no longer believe them). It is only through argument with contrary views that we can hope to discover which of our beliefs are mistaken.

 


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