Knowing why we believe what we believe = To prove a thing means - TopicsExpress



          

Knowing why we believe what we believe = To prove a thing means primarily to try, to test it.Not until a thing has been tried - “tried out,” in colloquial language - do we know its true worth. Till then it may be pretense, a bluff. But the thing that has come out victorious in a test or trial of strength carries its credentials with it; it is approved, because it has been proved... How brilliantly this applies not only to the pursuit of capital-T truth, but also to the basic fabric of our wants and desires — so often we dismiss something as unworthy without having tried it out. To dismiss experiences and ideas in that way is, then, a profound failure of reflective thinking and of our highest human potentiality
Posted on: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 12:51:13 +0000

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