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-3 Post author: Gleb_Tsipursky 27 December 2015 10:11PM

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Comment author: entirelyuseless 28 December 2015 09:15:46PM 0 points [-]

Both of those slogans can be used to justify bad epistemology, e.g. the first to justify rejecting a factual narrative that actually happened but doesn't happen to correspond to your pre-existing beliefs, and the second to assume that something is probable because a lot of people you know happen to be arguing for it.

Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 29 December 2015 03:36:46AM 0 points [-]

Agreed they can be.