Concept tag
#conciliationism
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Holding firm on religion and ethics while deferring on arithmetic is a failure of nerve
Most people are conciliationists about arithmetic. If an equally competent friend gets a different answer to a sum, you check, and until you do, you are less confident. Almost nobody is a conciliationist about religion, ethics or politics. We know perfectly well…
Started by Ethan Mercer6 replies315 views -
I do tax returns. When a colleague gets a different total, should I move halfway?
I prepare tax returns for small businesses. Last week a colleague and I each worked through the same client's figures. I got one total; she got a total about two hundred dollars higher. We are equally experienced, equally careful, neither of us…
Started by Harpreet Kaur Grewal4 replies177 views -
These and these: what Talmudic argument can teach us about disagreeing with a peer
Philosophers ask whether you should change your mind when an equally capable person disagrees. The rabbis built a whole culture around a different answer.
Started by Rabbi Eliana Gutman0 replies129 views