aelephant comments on Open Thread, July 1-15, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: aelephant 01 July 2013 11:08:16PM 1 point [-]

I can't remember where I read it, but I remember hearing that in order to really understand an argument, you have to take a leap of faith & accept all of the propositions & conclusions in that argument. If you don't, you will be automatically & subconsciously strawmanning it. After you've exposed yourself to the whole idea, you can go back & look at it critically. I have no idea if this is BS & wish I could track down where I came across it. Cheers to any help.