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What this book knows
Human knowledge is structurally fragile, cognitively biased, and socially shaped—and rigorously examining how we know exposes how often we don't.
mind-and-cognition
The bottom 25 percent believed themselves to be in the 68th percentile—their incompetence robs them of the ability to recognize their own incompetence.
VLA-3E6045ED-RC-085Humans are not naturally gifted at abstract deductive reasoning. Even highly intelligent people make very basic mistakes when they attempt to think deductively.
VLA-3E6045ED-RC-083In an everyday scenario you know unconsciously you're not a brain in a vat; arguing explicitly with a skeptic destabilizes that very knowledge.
VLA-3E6045ED-RC-149self-and-identity
Gazzaniga suggested there is a special mechanism in the brain—the left hemisphere confabulates a narrative to explain actions it didn't actually control.
VLA-3E6045ED-RC-053education-and-formation
If you're a coherentist, everything you have reason to believe must be supported by its coherence with everything else you have reason to believe.
VLA-3E6045ED-RC-091News media aims to maximize attention—what consumers want is not necessarily a wealth of reliably accurate information.
VLA-3E6045ED-RC-136Illuminates
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