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I believe if we taught philosophy in school to a non-trivial level we wouldn't have to rely on trust/faith.

I wonder if it's possible to get people to wonder why the one discipline that has the tools to deal with all of these epistemic, logical, etc issues isn't taught in school. You'd think it would be something that people would naturally wonder about, but maybe our fundamentalist (and false) focus on science as the one and only source of knowledge has damaged our ability to wonder independently.




Suppose you need to make a decision on a topic that's contingent on P being true, which someone has already tested. How would you go about making the decision without testing P yourself (because that would mean that you would have to do the same for every decision in your life)?


> How would you go about making the decision without testing P yourself (because that would mean that you would have to do the same for every decision in your life)?

This does not seem necessary for my ask above.

There may be many approaches, some impossible/invalid, but perhaps not all.




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