When does "what you know" become realer than "what you see"?

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• Stopwatch8200@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My critical thinking professor told an anecdote:

  “This is a pen; how do we know? Because it does everything that a pen does. And that’s good enough for now, but when the pen gets up and starts talking, it’s time to reevaluate whether it’s still a pen.”

  I think that applies here too. We are the sum of our experiences and education is a part of that experience, eventually we have enough knowledge in a particular subject and a concept for gaining new knowledge. So, to a certain extent it never happens, we should always be asking questions.

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  When I haven’t eaten a handful of mushrooms.

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  • DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What if you’ve only eaten half a handful?

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    • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is actually trickier. At least when you’re tripping balls you know it. In between, get a second opinion.

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  • dope@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A dubious assertion.

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• SparkyTemper@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s becoming more common now that news videos contain edited video. We shouldn’t have to worry about it but we do.

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  • dope@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Your so called “video” is clearly just a bunch of dots on a screen.

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    • reeen@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Right, but sometimes the dots are recordings of real people and sometimes it’s a screen recording from Arma III

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• fluke@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What I know is that there isn’t a microscopic teapot between earth and the sun.

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  • redballooon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sure thing. That’s because the teapot should be in the cuiper belt, right?

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    • fluke@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Exactly.

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• GreyShuck@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I would say when you are aware that what you see may be subject to illusion or deception.

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  • dope@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The test for that is generally “does what I see contradict what I know?”. In which case the argument is already over.

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• mayoi@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  When you live to experience “majority rule”. Would recommend to avoid.

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  • dope@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m inclined to agree.

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• Nemo@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  About fifteen years ago.

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• HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  when you feel like it, i suppose

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• Grizzly_Biscuit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Empirical VS anecdotal evidence.

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  • dope@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes lovely terms. But when (in the case of contradiction) does anecdotal take precedence (or authoritarian, well documented etc anecdotal even)?

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    • Grizzly_Biscuit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh…to be honest I think I read the prompt backwards. As a rule of thumb, anecdotes should always be taken with a grain of salt when presented with contradictory empirical evidence.

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