Reasoning paradigms
I am becoming more and more convinced that the wish is the father of the thought. And mother. I'm starting to believe that for which we wish forms more opinions than facts, far more opinions. And drives more actions.
Even in science. Look at Einsteins reaction to quantum mechanics, for instance. I think he didn't want it to be true and denied it in the face of evidence. Or Mankind's problems with a solarcentric planetary system.
I'm afraid to ask myself how much of my own thought processes have been formed in that manner, but I'm suspecting it's a lot.
Arf