Openmindedness and truth
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Openmindedness and truth
While openmindedness is often cited as a paradigmatic example of an intellectual virtue, the connection between openmindedness and truth is tenuous. Several strategies for reconciling this tension are considered, and each is shown to fail; it is thus claimed that openmindedness, when intellectually virtuous, bears no interesting essential connection to truth. In the final section, the implicati...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Philosophy
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0045-5091,1911-0820
DOI: 10.1080/00455091.2014.923247