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A distinction that I get a lot of value out of is the difference between private beliefs and public beliefs. …
x Public beliefs vs. Private beliefs — LessWrong Epistemology Group Rationality Rationality Curated 147 Public beliefs vs. Private beliefs by Eli Tyre 1st Jun 2022 6 min read 30 147 A distinction that I get a lot of value out of is the difference between private beliefs and public beliefs. Public vs. Private A public belief is a proposition that someone thinks is true, and justifying on the basis of legible info and reasoning. If X is a public belief, then implicit claim is "not only do I think that X is true, I think that any right thinking person who examines the evidence should come to conc
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