"The bottom line is that civil society simply cannot function without default to truth…I can’t converse with you, for instance, if I subject every statement that comes out of your mouth to critical scrutiny before I accept it as true. Conversation cannot proceed without default to truth."
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On the propensity to interpret something as true in “Malcolm Gladwell: ‘I’m just trying to get people to take psychology seriously’” in The Guardian (2019 Sep 1)
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