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12 Post author: enfascination 21 March 2015 07:59PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 21 March 2015 10:17:51PM 0 points [-]

A truly humble person will be more open to hypotheses that seems unlikely. If evidence later is updated I think that a humble person will have an easier time cooping with it and maintain his critical thinking. While an arrogant person will try to find evidence supporting his own claims?