{"id":11956,"date":"2009-12-27T14:56:26","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T14:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/27\/intellectual-maturity-2\/"},"modified":"2009-12-27T14:56:26","modified_gmt":"2009-12-27T14:56:26","slug":"intellectual-maturity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/27\/intellectual-maturity-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Intellectual Maturity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">One mark of&#0160;intellectual maturity &#0160;is the ability to tolerate uncertainty, the ability to withhold assent, the ability to withstand contradiction and recognize the merit of opposing views&#0160;&#8211; all of this without lapsing into skepticism or relativism.&#0160; The intellectually immature, by contrast, bristle when their pieties and subjective certainties are called into question.&#0160; Their doxastic security needs trump their need to inquire into the truth.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One mark of&#0160;intellectual maturity &#0160;is the ability to tolerate uncertainty, the ability to withhold assent, the ability to withstand contradiction and recognize the merit of opposing views&#0160;&#8211; all of this without lapsing into skepticism or relativism.&#0160; The intellectually immature, by contrast, bristle when their pieties and subjective certainties are called into question.&#0160; Their doxastic security &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/27\/intellectual-maturity-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Intellectual Maturity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,290],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-life-of-the-mind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}