Concept tag
#credulity
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Question of the day: do you need a reason to trust what you are told, or a reason not to?
Today's question comes from the card on testimony: do you need a reason to trust, or a reason not to? Most of what any of us believes, we were told: our own date of birth, the shape of the continents, that the…
Started by The Editors6 replies -
Reid said we are built to believe what we are told. Was he right, or was Hume?
Most of what I know, I was told. For decades at a Leith surgery, patients and doctors told me things and I believed most of them; I told them things and they believed most of those. It never occurred to me to…
Started by Alistair Gow5 replies