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* encouraging research to make informed assessments
 
* encouraging research to make informed assessments
 
* fluency in some modern ideas
 
* fluency in some modern ideas
** Stove's conclusion
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** [http://huben.us/wiki/Skepticism_of_Philosophical_Thought Stove's conclusion]
 
* writing
 
* writing
 
** concision
 
** concision
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*how do we actually think?
 
*how do we actually think?
 
**not deductively
 
**not deductively
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* what is knowledge
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* foundations of knowledge
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** experience
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** models
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** values
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** viewpoints, including biases
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** lies, fantasies, fictions, wishes
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* why are there multiple conflicting knowledges
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** [https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2019/10/14/you-dont-have-evidence-for-most-of-your-beliefs-get-used-to-it/ You don’t have evidence for most of your beliefs. Get used to it.]
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* utilizing multiple conflicting knowledges
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** rabbinical methodologies?
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* choosing among multiple conflicting knowledges
 
*folk knowledge versus modern knowledge
 
*folk knowledge versus modern knowledge
 
**see consilience
 
**see consilience
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****http://web.archive.org/web/20070415083414/http://www.freeinquiry.com/intro-to-sci.html
 
****http://web.archive.org/web/20070415083414/http://www.freeinquiry.com/intro-to-sci.html
 
***modeling: analogy
 
***modeling: analogy
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***[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemic_humility Epistemic humility]
 
***innate modeling
 
***innate modeling
 
***anecdotes
 
***anecdotes
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***science
 
***science
 
***markets
 
***markets
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*** [https://ecpr.eu/filestore/paperproposal/79d2738d-62e7-4991-a1af-6dcd19dccbca.pdf COMING TO TERMS WITH ACCOUNTABILITY]
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*** war
 
**hill-climbing, maxima, etc.
 
**hill-climbing, maxima, etc.
 
*deception -- everybody lies
 
*deception -- everybody lies
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** business
 
** business
 
** religion
 
** religion
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*** pseudepigraphical writing
 
** scientists
 
** scientists
 
*** [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/upshot/fake-academe-looking-much-like-the-real-thing.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=1 Fake Academe, Looking Much Like the Real Thing]
 
*** [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/upshot/fake-academe-looking-much-like-the-real-thing.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=1 Fake Academe, Looking Much Like the Real Thing]
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*ontology
 
*ontology
 
*learning
 
*learning
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** from infancy on, learning is based on trust in the sources.  We do not have resources to check even a slight fraction of what we are learning against the real world let alone against what we already think we know.
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** [https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2019/10/14/you-dont-have-evidence-for-most-of-your-beliefs-get-used-to-it/ You don’t have evidence for most of your beliefs. Get used to it.]
 
**research vs. gossip, accuracy vs retention
 
**research vs. gossip, accuracy vs retention
** complexity beyond (single) human understanding [https://plus.google.com/112218872649456413744/posts/dfydM2Cnepe Dizzying but invisible depth]
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** complexity beyond (single) human understanding [http://web.archive.org/web/20170609044355/https://plus.google.com/112218872649456413744/posts/dfydM2Cnepe Dizzying but invisible depth]
 
*consequentialism
 
*consequentialism
 
*skepticism
 
*skepticism
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**nutrition
 
**nutrition
 
**medicine
 
**medicine
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***quackademic medicine (infiltration into medical practices)
 
**politics
 
**politics
 
**finances
 
**finances
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*Entire fields can be identified as very low in truth content because there are many traditionally held beliefs that all contradict each other.
 
*Entire fields can be identified as very low in truth content because there are many traditionally held beliefs that all contradict each other.
 
** the many religions, the many philosophies, most world views, some social sciences
 
** the many religions, the many philosophies, most world views, some social sciences
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** [https://philpapers.org/surveys/results.pl The PhilPapers Surveys]: philosophers cannot agree on anything basic.
 
** [http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2017/05/vast-literatures-as-mud-moats.html Vast Literatures as Mud Moats]: a heuristic method of identifying when it is worthwhile or not to explore a literature.
 
** [http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2017/05/vast-literatures-as-mud-moats.html Vast Literatures as Mud Moats]: a heuristic method of identifying when it is worthwhile or not to explore a literature.
 
*pseudoscience: recognizing pseudoscience: asimov/clark's rules
 
*pseudoscience: recognizing pseudoscience: asimov/clark's rules
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**how to detect fake images
 
**how to detect fake images
 
*public relations
 
*public relations
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** <i>Post-Truth</i>, Lee McIntyre
 
*fringe groups (LaRouche, cults, etc.)
 
*fringe groups (LaRouche, cults, etc.)
 
*race/culture/ethnicity
 
*race/culture/ethnicity
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**self interest
 
**self interest
 
**active vs passive acceptance of falsehoods (reorganize)
 
**active vs passive acceptance of falsehoods (reorganize)
**confirmation bias
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**confirmation bias, including the political sense of epistemic closure
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***tribal epistemology
 
**humans use non-monotonic heuristics, seldom logic
 
**humans use non-monotonic heuristics, seldom logic
  
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* [http://crispian-jago.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-venn-diagram-of-irrational-nonsense.html The Venn Diagram of Irrational Nonsense]
 
* [http://crispian-jago.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-venn-diagram-of-irrational-nonsense.html The Venn Diagram of Irrational Nonsense]
 
* [http://www.bradford-delong.com/2018/02/economics-as-a-professional-vocation-bulls-detection-as-a-student-learning-goal.html Bulls--- Detection as a Student Learning Goal - Brad DeLong]
 
* [http://www.bradford-delong.com/2018/02/economics-as-a-professional-vocation-bulls-detection-as-a-student-learning-goal.html Bulls--- Detection as a Student Learning Goal - Brad DeLong]
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* Nonsense on Stilts: How to tell Science from Bunk (Massimo Pigliucci)
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* [http://whatstheharm.net what's the harm?] This site is designed to make a point about the danger of not thinking critically. Namely that you can easily be injured or killed by neglecting this important skill.
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* [https://b-ok.lat/book/3554094/bce2e3 Truth (book) by Chase Wrenn]

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