Sunday 8 July 2012

Intellectual conformity

The equilibrium state in intellectual matters is intellectual conformity, as truth is absolute. Intellectual disagreement is caused by: an inaccurate model of the truth; an absence of information on one or more sides; a breakdown in logic in one or more sides. Any intellectual standoff should be solvable by addressing these factors, and an important part of that resolution is diagnosing which of these is the cause.

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