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This poll needed to have "Huh?" as a choice. To me the question seems like a semantic game - near to asking if it's reasonable to be reasonable. So, you would have to pose a situation where you think it's reasonable to believe something false so I can start to comprehend what you're even thinking about.
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Not necessarily.
I can believe something that happens to be true without having reasoned its truth.
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No.
It is reasonable to believe what you have the best available evidence for.
For example. If you were a wandering desert nomad 6000 years ago, it would have been reasonable to believe the earth was flat, as you had little or no evidence to the contrary.
It is reasonable to believe what you have the best available evidence for.
For example. If you were a wandering desert nomad 6000 years ago, it would have been reasonable to believe the earth was flat, as you had little or no evidence to the contrary.
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essentialsaltes
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It begs the question of how (or whether) you know that something is true. But yes, it's reasonable to believe things that are true.
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Let's say it's true that the Firschizleschmocks exists. Merely because it is true that the Firschizleschmocks exists, is that enough to make it reasonable to believe that the Firschizleschmocks exists?
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Let's say it's true that the Firschizleschmocks exists. Merely because it is true that the Firschizleschmocks exists, is that enough to make it reasonable to believe that the Firschizleschmocks exists?
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Let's say it's true that the Firschizleschmocks exists. Merely because it is true that the Firschizleschmocks exists, is that enough to make it reasonable to believe that the Firschizleschmocks exists?
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Let's say it's true that the Firschizleschmocks exists. Merely because it is true that the Firschizleschmocks exists, is that enough to make it reasonable to believe that the Firschizleschmocks exists?Not sure if I understand the question
Therefore I voted no.
If something is true, then it is and I am not required to believe it.
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essentialsaltes
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Yes, but do we know that Firschizleschmocks exist?
I mean, it may be true that the 123847192837412745871293871923874912847591287391827349817245987129354871293487129837591283759128375th digit of pi is '7', but unless we know that it is, there is no reason to believe that it is.
It is true that the first digit of pi is 3. And we all, I hope, know this, and therefore it is reasonable to believe it.
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What we know to be true is irrelevant. When asking if it's reasonable to believe that which is true, what's relevant is what really is true and what we believe.
For example, let's say it were true that I am actually a 17 headed invisible fire breathing monster named Dexter. It would not be reasonable to believe that's the truth - even though it would be in that case.
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How about the case where all the data we have points towards a false conclusion and none (at least none that we've found so far) points to the true one? In that case, it would be reasonable to believe in something false. Of course, we wouldn't know it was false at the time so like you say, it is kinda playing word games with the definition of true and false.
Seems to be an ontology vs. epistemology question at best. It is reasonable to believe stuff we have good reason to believe in, but we don't always have reason to believe in things which are true. It is true that there are either an even or odd number of atoms in the sun, yet we really have no reason to believe in either case as being true simply due to a lack of information.
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How about this?
It is reasonable to believe things that we have reasons to believe are true.
It is reasonable to believe things that we have reasons to believe are true.
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This will depend on the epistemological praxis to which any particular person subscribes; it will also depend on her current mental state.
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