I seem to always only get round to reading posts well after the conversation about them is over, but anyway....
I think that Frank probably doesn’t consciously know exactly why he has that opinion about that item, and that his justification is just a rationalisation.
If you want to avoid doing this sort of thing, you have to try and catch yourself when you’re about to rationalise something.
You have to be aware that there can be unconsicous or implicit components behind your opinions, that these reasons can often not be very good. On the basis of this, you need to make the decision to try and evaluate opinions that come to mind.
You should be trying to feel out whether you do have a true sense of their justification, or whether you have to start searching for a rationalisation. I think this is possible to do (at least some of the time).
I seem to always only get round to reading posts well after the conversation about them is over, but anyway....
I think that Frank probably doesn’t consciously know exactly why he has that opinion about that item, and that his justification is just a rationalisation.
If you want to avoid doing this sort of thing, you have to try and catch yourself when you’re about to rationalise something.
You have to be aware that there can be unconsicous or implicit components behind your opinions, that these reasons can often not be very good. On the basis of this, you need to make the decision to try and evaluate opinions that come to mind.
You should be trying to feel out whether you do have a true sense of their justification, or whether you have to start searching for a rationalisation. I think this is possible to do (at least some of the time).