SSH 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Rob Ford, Confirmation Bias

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Sciences and Humanities
• Course: SSH 105
• Professor: Joseph Zboralski

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Reasons for belief and doubt: when claims conflict, experts and evidence, personal experience, fooling ourselves. Reasons for belief and doubt - if we care about our beliefs are true or reliable, then we must care about the reasons accepting those beliefs. When two claims conflict they simply cannot both be true. If a new claim conflicts with other claims we have good reason to accept, we have good grounds for doubting the new claim. With conflicting claims you are not justified in believing either one of them until you resolve the conflict. 2 statements can be inconsistent (can"t both be true, but could both be false) (eg. today is monday and. 2 statements can be contradictories can"t both be true but also can"t both be false (eg. there is a video of rob ford and there is no video of rob ford are contradictories.