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Do you know why you believe what you believe?
In order to make sense of the world, human beings search for patterns and make assumptions. But our need to make sense of things does not guarantee that we will make reasonable sense, or that our beliefs will be truthful.
Do we develop our religious and political beliefs using the same process? Should we?
How do we know whether one of our beliefs is wrong?
In a conversational style, this book discusses how we come to belief today, and how our minds can actually get in the way of our search for truth by leading us into various cognitive biases and logical fallacies
Using insightful quotations of scientists such as Galileo Galilei, Francis Bacon, and Carl Sagan, and philosophers such as Søren Kierkegaard, Bertrand Russell, David Hume and Karl Popper, this book addresses questions like:
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