billswift comments on Why some people seem to be proud of their ignorance? - Less Wrong

14 Post author: uzalud 31 December 2011 01:38PM

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Comment author: billswift 31 December 2011 09:48:24PM 0 points [-]

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".

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 03 January 2012 03:24:03AM 2 points [-]

... 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.