Comment on Should we be biased?

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:57:20 GMT

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

--Daniel Dennett (hat tip: Steven).

The judgment is the bottom line. What you write above it doesn't change the nature of the judgment, doesn't change whether it's biased, systematically mistaken. You may be accurate in deciding to be afraid of spiders, even if you do that only because you believe that God told you to do that.

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