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[In one of the simple and common models of epistemology] one trades in one's blind faith for scientific doubt out of risk aversion: the options are, first, foolish adherence to the false with the slightest chance of holding, purely by accident, the Truth, and, second, a tolerable purgatory where one is always detached from but always slowly approaching one's goal.
I think there's an analogy in one's blind faith in oneself and, alternatively, interminable self-doubt. There are three types of people: those people who think they have attained perfection who are actually ridiculous, those people who believe, rightly, that they are giants, and those who have allowed their inner voices to hound them with critiques for the (flimsy!) guarantee that they will always be improving. Like the careful doubter, they may never take that last leap of confidence and culminate.
Maybe it's not risk aversion, but the desire to be in control of one's value; a seizing of the reins.
[Everything above is false. I'm sure of it. "There are three types of people...." Get real.]
[I like how "seize the reins," along with many other idioms, don't make any sense now that people don't commonly use horses or other...old things. Does modern literature know how to incorporate technology into its drama? How about the reality that much of our language now is trademarked?]
I think there's an analogy in one's blind faith in oneself and, alternatively, interminable self-doubt. There are three types of people: those people who think they have attained perfection who are actually ridiculous, those people who believe, rightly, that they are giants, and those who have allowed their inner voices to hound them with critiques for the (flimsy!) guarantee that they will always be improving. Like the careful doubter, they may never take that last leap of confidence and culminate.
Maybe it's not risk aversion, but the desire to be in control of one's value; a seizing of the reins.
[Everything above is false. I'm sure of it. "There are three types of people...." Get real.]
[I like how "seize the reins," along with many other idioms, don't make any sense now that people don't commonly use horses or other...old things. Does modern literature know how to incorporate technology into its drama? How about the reality that much of our language now is trademarked?]