{"id":7779,"date":"2014-08-11T10:07:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T10:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/08\/11\/doxastic-conservatism\/"},"modified":"2014-08-11T10:07:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T10:07:28","slug":"doxastic-conservatism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/08\/11\/doxastic-conservatism\/","title":{"rendered":"Doxastic Conservatism"},"content":{"rendered":"

The onus probandi<\/em> is on the extremist in matters of belief.  Extreme beliefs bear the burden of proof.  There is a defeasible presumption in favor of moderate views just as there is a defeasible presumption in favor of traditional ways of doing things.  Note the qualifier, 'defeasible.'<\/span><\/p>\n

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The onus probandi is on the extremist in matters of belief.  Extreme beliefs bear the burden of proof.  There is a defeasible presumption in favor of moderate views just as there is a defeasible presumption in favor of traditional ways of doing things.  Note the qualifier, 'defeasible.' Related articles Happiness Maxims (2013 Version) The Zimmerman … Continue reading “Doxastic Conservatism”<\/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":[69,372,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-belief","category-conservatism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779","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=7779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}