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Quoting Nicholas Thompson circa 09-12-02 01:32 PM:
> So, I live in a pre keplerian village. On a hill in the middle of
> the village is a monastery where lives a monk who rings a bell at
> sunrise every day. A model explanation circulates around the village
> that the sun is attached to the Monk's bellrope and that it is his
> ringing the bell that raises the sun. Many people in the village
> take this model to be "true" (wetftm) and conduct their lives in
> accordance with it. Are they WACKO?
Just because they act as if they believe it doesn't mean they are
convicted to the belief.
In any distribution of people who act as if they believe something,
you'll find that some are true believers, some have doubts, and some
just act that way because it's socially the easiest/best thing to do.
Those that were true believers were wacko. Those that sometimes doubted
the belief were sane. Those that just did it because everyone else did
it were also sane (though perhaps weak-minded).
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