GabrielDuquette comments on Rationality Quotes November 2012 - Less Wrong
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For a philosophy to be worth paying attention to, it has to constrain expectations. It has to make accurate observations about the universe works. Therefore a philosophy that is the least unsettled by a daily examination of experience is preferable.
EDIT: More succinctly...
Indeed. One should have an open mind but a very judicious customs agent at the gate.