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Elena Hinnawi

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When do we discard explanations that are intuitively appealing?

I've been researching the power of human intuition, and the two main systems of thinking for the past couple of days to try and get to a plausible argument on when and for what reasons should human beings discard explanations that are intuitively appealing.

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    Koen Wesselman

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    Jan 27 2012: I'm not sure if this is personal or not, but usually you can convince me of changing what I think with logic that proofs my wrong. The problem I think is that a lot of people, including me sometimes, don't accept that their intuition could be wrong and sit down to think about other people's arguments.

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