Kahneman identifies a foundational paradox of human cognition: we hold our most important beliefs with enormous confidence, yet those beliefs are typically inherited from people we trust rather than grounded in evidence. The same confidence that is epistemically 'preposterous' is also psychologically essential — without it, we couldn't function or act decisively. This tension sits at the heart of how humans navigate an unknowable world.
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