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Re:Second-Order Thinking by wawjgreen on Monday August 15, 2022 @08:07AM (#32468622)
the first things skeptics should be skeptical about is skepticism itself: are they right in being skeptical about what they are skeptical about?
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Re:Second-Order Thinking by noduerme on Monday August 15, 2022 @08:58AM (#32469112)
The first thing skeptics question are sentences which begin with

>> the first things skeptics should be skeptical about

from there I guess we just migrate up to talking shit about bloated blog posts where one dude mumbles his observations about deep thoughts.

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Re:Second-Order Thinking by ehnto on Monday August 15, 2022 @10:23AM (#32470054)
If in their analysis, they come to the conclusion that they shouldn't be skeptical, does that make them the best skeptic or the worst?
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Re:Second-Order Thinking by wawjgreen on Friday August 19, 2022 @02:32AM (#32518076)
the best if their skepticism is carefully done.
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