Do we really need to take the whole package in? If we have (n) beliefs, some number of them might be useful, some of them would be less effective than advertised, and some could be useless if not harmful.
Sure, there are at least two ways how to go stupid about this.
One of them is saying “here is a package that contains at least one true statement, I am going to adopt it as a whole”.
Other is hearing a statement in isolation and saying “hey, this statement is a part of this package, and we reject that package as a whole, right?”
Do we really need to take the whole package in? If we have (n) beliefs, some number of them might be useful, some of them would be less effective than advertised, and some could be useless if not harmful.
Sure, there are at least two ways how to go stupid about this.
One of them is saying “here is a package that contains at least one true statement, I am going to adopt it as a whole”.
Other is hearing a statement in isolation and saying “hey, this statement is a part of this package, and we reject that package as a whole, right?”