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The difficulty for me is that this technique is at war with having an accurate self-concept, and may conflict with good epistemic hygiene generally. For the program to work, one must seemingly learn to suppress one's critical faculties for selected cases of wishful thinking. This runs against trying to be just the right amount critical when faced with propositions in general. How can someone who is just the right amount critical affirm things that are probably not true?
Is an actor practicing poor epistemic hygiene when they play a role?
Refraining from dispute is not the same thing as believing. Not discussing religion with your theist friends is not the same as becoming one yourself.