"If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on
the slightest evidence."
- Bertrand Russell, Roads to Freedom
2007-04-03 13:13:50 · 7 answers · asked by Psyengine 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Bama's answer seems closest. All other answer are accepted as on the same trayne of thought.
Generally it is the lack of mediacy in thought for which those operating in this 'instinctual' mode of reflection and thought present. The Will is positive and the Judgment is negative and in this mode of thought, a proposition that suggests a change for personal belief is Judged as not of necessity and need for self defense is the only mover while the positive evidence for personal belief demands no change and requires no extra or additional action.
In a person whose Judgment Judges its self, the process for weighing evidence is the more self mediated.
2007-04-04 15:32:27 · update #1
Instincts in the question does not represent the instincts that we are "born with", but rather the conditioning that life has given us. So when something goes against what life has taught us or conditioned us to believe, we tend to reject it. But if anything supports, the evidence just adds fuel to our fire that we know what our truth to be.
2007-04-03 14:18:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It would seem to me that 'instincts' in this case is what man knows to be truth, or believes to be true. His belief is so shaped in his mind that he will not budge from his belief without 100% proof positive evidence that he is wrong in his belief. Also, since he so firmly believes his truth is correct it doesn't take much evidence to support his belief.
2007-04-03 20:27:40 · answer #2 · answered by Tool 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
His habitual patterns of thought and/or belief.
2007-04-03 20:46:02 · answer #3 · answered by auteur 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We tend to be biased to our own judgements, which sounds about right.
2007-04-04 00:07:54 · answer #4 · answered by Answerer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
His predominant way of thinking
2007-04-03 21:15:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the social.
2007-04-03 21:14:57 · answer #6 · answered by !@#%&! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
his gut feeling
2007-04-03 20:21:50 · answer #7 · answered by bloop_bloop4 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋