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Cognitive Dissonance is Mentally Taxing

Cognitive dissonance is the discomfort we feel when our beliefs don't line up with our actions. More generally, the two dissonant things don't need to be belief and action. It can be the discomfort we feel when different beliefs of ours are in contradiction. It can also arise when our...

Pascal's Mugging and the Order of Quantification

One of the fun things to do when learning first order logic is to consider how the meaning of propositions dramatically changes based on small switches in the syntax. This is in contrast to natural language, where the meaning of a phrase can be ambiguous and we naturally use context...