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Brettongarcia
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Brettongarcia's Journal
August 9, 2016
The tendency to believe anything
The suspension or simple lack of intelligence and reason.
In its origins in philosophy by the way, one merely temporarily "suspends belief" in something... in order to fairly try it out and examine it more carefully. Then if it fails? Then it has failed
From the Greek skeptics, Descartes, Kant, Husseralian phenomenology.
It was really the suspension of belief, not disbelief.
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