billswift comments on Why some people seem to be proud of their ignorance? - Less Wrong
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Your double "supposes" are a bit redundant; if someone arrives at a belief other than through evaluating the evidence, they chose it because it is "satisfying in some way".
... or because they got confused (took it as a supposition and forgot that was its role), or have never really considered the issue carefully and gone with the first thing their intuition suggests, or...
It's not redundant. Stretching the first to encompass the second is too much stretching.