Self-sustaining beliefs
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- Created on: 05-12-15 15:44
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- Self-sustaining beliefs
- Circularity
- Each idea in the system is explained in terms of another
- Subsidiary explanations
- Explaining away an idea e.g. if the oracle fails it may be explained away due to incorrect use of the benge
- Denial of legitimacy to rivals
- Reject alternative worldviews by refusing to grant any legitimacy to their basic assumptions e.g. creationism rejects evolutionists' knowledge
- Circularity
- Polanyi 1958
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