Knowledge Should Inform Belief

Knowledge Should Inform Belief

Unfortunately, belief is all too often used as an excuse for selectively ignoring knowledge.

... real-world knowledge does not exist simply to be cherry-picked according to one’s own beliefs, but to be made sense of, and to form one’s beliefs.

Kerr Jac - Ideas and Ego.

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