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there’s a mental habit of holding a thought as provisional and really thinking through it without being tempted to believe it that I have found extremely useful in life. a lot of people don’t seem to be able to do this — thinking and believing are inseparable for them

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in other words I see knowledge as always provisional, always subject to further verification and checks for coherence with everything else you know