Tag: certainty
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Certain. For… everything?!
Attitudes are our personal evaluations - of anything. It might be a political issue, other people, food, movies, cars, climate or even yourself. What a new research shows is that some people tend to be certain - and others uncertain - across a wide range of their attitudes, something which hasn't previously been explored. According…
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Certain!
Physicists are raising doubts about the existence of an exotic subatomic particle that failed to show up in twin experiments. (1) But by when would anyone be certain? When can anyone know anything? What a weird world. Shaped by the ones who are afraid of it. People being certain of what they know. Full of…
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Skepticism. Garbage.
We live in an era of skepticism. Skepticism which targets one specific way of thinking: The Christian way of thinking. But how can you differentiate between doubt and dogmatic denial? wondered William James. How can one deny the logic behind the idea of someone designing the cosmos due to “skepticism” and yet accept as highly…
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Too good to be true…
The old adage that says 'If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is' has finally been put to the test - mathematically. A team of researchers has found that overwhelming evidence without a dissenting opinion can in fact weaken the credibility of a case, or point to a failure of the system.…
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