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How do I stop my brain from going: "I believe P and I believe something that implies not P -> principle of explosion -> all statements are true!" and instead go "I believe P and I believe something that implies not P -> I one of my beliefs are incorrect". It doesn't happen to often, but it'd be nice to have an actual formal refutation for when it does.
To the (mostly social) extent that concepts were useful to your ancestors, one is going to lead to better decisions than the other, and so you should expect to have evolved the latter intuition. (You trust two friends, and then one of them tells you the other is lying- you feel some consternation of the first kind, but then you start trying to figure out which one is trustworthy.)
It seems a lot of intuitions all humans are supposed to have were overwritten by noise at some point...