Insufficient Justifications
Sep. 13th, 2019 11:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unspeakablehorrorThings that are not actually good indicators of positive evidence for a political belief:
*common sense
*I learned it in school (so it must be right)
*the person telling me this is reliably correct about other, unrelated issues
*the person telling me this is my friend
*everyone else thinks it's true
*everyone else thinks it's false (I'm like Galileo!)
*feeling really strongly like this is correct
*having a super high IQ
*degree of confidence in correctness
But a lot of times...one or more of the above is used as if it is definitive evidence or even proof of such things.
*common sense
*I learned it in school (so it must be right)
*the person telling me this is reliably correct about other, unrelated issues
*the person telling me this is my friend
*everyone else thinks it's true
*everyone else thinks it's false (I'm like Galileo!)
*feeling really strongly like this is correct
*having a super high IQ
*degree of confidence in correctness
But a lot of times...one or more of the above is used as if it is definitive evidence or even proof of such things.