Ep 047: James | Are Taught Beliefs Always True? | Street Epistemology
San Antonio, TX
27 April 2015
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James was raised by his Grandmother to believe in the Christian God. We compare his taught belief to my Grandfather, who was raised to believe that smoking was safe, and if simply being taught something makes the belief true.
I also experiment here by combining "commitment" and "convinced" into one belief scale.
Notice around 1:45 James mentions being teased about Noah's Ark on Facebook and how he simply dismissed it ("that don't really affect me").
Pardon my obscure Alan Turing reference; I agreed to say the word "Turing" during an interview on behalf of the individual who became my 4k'th YouTube subscriber :)
Music provided by Chet Hovatter.
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