Dovina2 Apr 2005

A race of Liars is unimaginable. How could they communicate? Let’s talk about real minds. You say we should “embrace accepting false propositions.” I hope you don’t mean that. Perhaps you mean “consider propositions that appear false.”

A closed mind does not necessarily make assertions based on insufficient evidence. There may be good evidence in a person’s thinking that Negroes are an unreliable source of information, for example. He is closed minded if he rejects information from that source. It is important to recognize closed mindedness because through it good information is rejected.