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Originally Posted by peacegirl
Here's food for thought:
Question and examine everything. Conclusions
that sound logically persuasive may not be true, even if
you can't immediately prove those conclusions are not true,
even if you can't immediately prove what IS true instead,
even if you may never be able to prove to others' satisfaction
what IS true instead.
Don't discount commonsense, intuition that something is not
quite right, personal experience, and other practical experience.
Any of these routes to knowledge can be in error, but
if we rely only on authority, statistics, and
persuasive sounding logic, we will have given away much
of our power to detect error where that may occur.
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Yes, and this is why most here discount Lessans ideas and disagree with them, they just don't smell right. And Peacegirl, no-one else here is relying on 'authority', just you.