billswift comments on How do you notice when you're rationalizing? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: billswift 02 March 2012 12:13:31PM 3 points [-]

That is nearly always true, not just when a person is rationalizing. If you are correctly performing incremental updates of your beliefs, going back and articulating what caused your beliefs you be what they currently are is time consuming, and sometimes not possible, except by careful reconstruction.