{"id":278,"date":"2025-03-02T14:10:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T14:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/03\/02\/wrong-to-believe-on-insufficient-evidence-contra-clifford\/"},"modified":"2025-03-02T14:10:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T14:10:53","slug":"wrong-to-believe-on-insufficient-evidence-contra-clifford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/03\/02\/wrong-to-believe-on-insufficient-evidence-contra-clifford\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong to Believe on Insufficient Evidence? Contra Clifford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Is it wrong always and everywhere for anyone to believe anything on insufficient evidence? (W. K. Clifford) If so, the young would never be right to believe in the realization of their potentials. But they are right so to believe. If they didn&#39;t, none of them would ever have &#39;made it.&#39; But many of us did.&#0160; We made it, but only&#0160; by believing in ourselves well beyond the evidence available. Give it your best shot, but don&#39;t piss and moan if it comes to nought.&#0160; Take another shot, a different one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">For a development of this theme, see <a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/is-it-sometimes-rational-to-believe?utm_source=publication-search\">Is it Sometimes Rational to Believe on Insufficient Evidence?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it wrong always and everywhere for anyone to believe anything on insufficient evidence? (W. K. Clifford) If so, the young would never be right to believe in the realization of their potentials. But they are right so to believe. If they didn&#39;t, none of them would ever have &#39;made it.&#39; But many of us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/03\/02\/wrong-to-believe-on-insufficient-evidence-contra-clifford\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wrong to Believe on Insufficient Evidence? Contra Clifford&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[248,249,250,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics-of-belief","category-evidence","category-pragmatism","category-sage-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","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=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}