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Facing both ways

Peter G. Ryan

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Surely one of the most curious characteristics of the human mind is its capacity, at any given moment, to be holding and espousing two wholly contradictory ideas. We don't like to think of our minds in this way. We prefer to view ourselves as holding a rational, wellthought - out position on all those subjects which interest us; we take it for granted that ware consistent, more or less.

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Surely one of the most curious characteristics of the human mind is its capacity, at any given moment, to be holding and espousing two wholly contradictory ideas. We don't like to think of our minds in this way. We prefer to view ourselves as holding a rational, wellthought - out position on all those subjects which interest us; we take it for granted that ware consistent, more or less.

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Surely one of the most curious characteristics of the human mind is its capacity, at any given moment, to be holding and espousing two wholly contradictory ideas. We don't like to think of our minds in this way. We prefer to view ourselves as holding a rational, wellthought - out position on all those subjects which interest us; we take it for granted that ware consistent, more or less.

Key concepts: Position (finance), Epistemology, Moment (physics), Sociology, Philosophy, Economics, Finance, Physics

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