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Artemis · 16w
If you haven't been able to imagine something, does that mean it is impossible? Maybe I am needlessly nitpicking someone's turn of phrase. It's possible I'm being pedantic as hell, in which case, my ...
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The capabilities of your own mind are not the limits of rational thought, & your assumptions & intuitions may not be as grounded in reality as you think.

I'm an intuitive thinker. It serves me very well much of the time, but sometimes the conclusions I reach are dead wrong, because I didn't know that I was missing information or my very logical-seeming intuition simply wasn't correct.

Rolling thoughts around in your head is no substitute for new knowledge.
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Artemis · 16w
A lot of us smarty-pants type people often make the mistake of confusing our intuitions or general impressions with empirical evidence. I do it! It's shockingly easy to believe that you can single-handedly (single-mindedly?) reason your way to all the right conclusions. It's easy to think that the...