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HAP 10 - Think for Yourself - Walda Heywat

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

CHAPTER

Why We Do Not Believe in What We Take to Be True

Wanda Heiwat, who was taught by Zayakov from a young age, wrote his own book. It defends Yayakov's views of rationalism that is at the core of both treatises. You do need a reason to believe in something, but you don't need a reason not to believe in it, he says. If we follow this policy, we can never go astray, since we are believing only that which all humans would accept if they devoted sufficient effort to philosophical inquiry.

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