#epistemology #rationality # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought # Faking belief #to-digest Sometimes you hold an **average belief** for something, but you have to show a **high belief** for it in order to convince someone of it. It’s almost [[Mathematic]]al, the person holds a 99% **belief** in something, so you have to fake a contradictory belief of similar strength. For example, you want to convince someone that the earth is flat even though you are not so sure, but yesterday you had a dream seeing a flat earth from the window of a space station you were travelling in. Well, with this evidence you will have hard time convincing the person of it, and also I wouldn’t consider dreams as valid [[Empiricism|empirical]] [[Information|information]], but you see what I mean. So you just argue with the person, “I’m so sure that the earth is flat blabla…” (whatever is your way to show **high belief**). Unfortunately **faking belief** is often required with people with weak [[Epistemic hygiene]], for example people that base their beliefs on random [[Information|information]] heard on the TV (well if the person actually watches TV I tend to already know what kind of person that is) # External links Similar topic links: [[Confirmation]] [[Belief]] [[Epistemic humility]] [[Epistemocracy]]