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Episode 164: Choosing to Believe

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We Don't Believe Any of Our Beliefs Because There Is Enough Evidence for It

I don't see that as the same thing as saying we don't believe any of our beliefs because we have sufficient evidence for them. It just means that at some point somebody had to not have sufficient evidence, even just in order to discover what the evidence was for that belief. So he's saying that the belief in belief in something because there is enough evidence for it is just not the way that we actually know things. I think that what he is trying to say is even the chemist has to have faith that something is true.

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