http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/10/do-we-believe-e.html
So apparently, Descartes and Spinoza had a disagreement about whether, faced with a new proposition we:
D: Comprehend
Consider
Accept or Reject
S: Comprehend and Accept
Consider and possibly reject
This reminds me, actually, of a recent CDC study I heard about, from the same source, about how people misremember so-called "myths" that are being refuted, as being true AND that the source of the "truth" was the mythbuster.
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/09/the-deniers-con.html
In other words, Spinoza could have predicted the CDC's quandary.
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