I don’t know

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."  Ludwig Wittgenstein We are suffering greatly because too many people are incapable of saying “I don’t know.”  Why can’t people simply say “I don’t know” when they don’t know?  Is it because so many of us were chastised in school when…

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More on cognitive dissonance: interview with Carol Tavris

In an earlier post, I summarized an Elliot Aronson interview on the topic of cognitive dissonance.  Because I find this to be such a critically compelling topic, I took the time to listen to a recent Point of Inquiry podcast featuring Dr. Carol Tavris, Aronson's co-author regarding Mistakes Were Made…

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