Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
Good article, generally correct, and sufficient to make many people rethink how they come to believe what they believe. Carlo Iacono rests heavily on the need to rely on evidence for belief, which is fair enough, and which to few people do, but there is also room for explanation as to why we arrive at beliefs without evidence, how reliable they are, and what we should do when the evidence is lacking.

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