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#317 - What Do We Know About Our Minds?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Psychological Mechanisms of Propositional Knowledge

There is some evidence of this in, and then if I recall Spinoza alleged that this was true. Just merely understanding a linguistic proposition entails at least for the initial moment of understanding it,. We believe something that we accept statements as true until proven otherwise. People are quicker to judge something to be true than they are to judge it to be false.

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