Wisdom Hack: The Five Situations in Which the Wise Suspend Belief
Plus an Easy Visualization to Help Remember Them
Consider the claim “Socrates was left-handed”. If you agree with it, so you think it’s true, then you believe it. If you disagree with it, so you think it’s false, then you disbelieve it. But if you decide that you don’t know what to think of it, even though you have considered it, then you suspend judgment on it. We need to clarify this latter notion.
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