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Showing posts with label humility. Show all posts
Showing posts with label humility. Show all posts
Friday, January 13, 2023

Humility and the existence of God

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Here’s a valid argument: Humility is an appropriate attitude for everyone. For highly accomplished individuals, humility is only an appro...
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Monday, August 21, 2017

Searching for the best theory

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Let’s say that I want to find the maximum value of some function over some domain. Here’s one naive way to do it: Algorithm 1 : I pick a s...
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Conciliation and caution

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I assign a credence 0.75 to p and I find out that you assign credence 0.72 to it, despite us both having the same evidence and epistemic pr...
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Thursday, February 5, 2015

Mathematics and intellectual humility

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The discipline where we have the greatest consensus of certainty is mathematics. Yet that discipline is also pretty close to bein...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

"Love does not seek its own"

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Here is another excerpt from Section 2.2. of my forthcoming One Body book. One way love is humble is that the actions of love are not focu...
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