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Giving Your Comment for following information An instance in which I engaged in belief perseverance was recent in which I am going to describe. I had taken a philosophy class last semester for the first time. I am Catholic, and what I believe in how things are on this world have always been the same. I started out the class not knowing what philosophy and the in depth context was, but as I started to engage further into the course, it started to contradict my belief.I learned about different areas each week that even times had to do with a higher God, and that new information would contradict the belief of my own Catholic religious belief. We would have to read in depth and research in depth about the topic and I would then have to explore the idea in writing for homework. Even after writing about it, I can say that my belief and views about a higher God never changed, even when challenged to explore other beliefs Now that Ive learned about these errors and fallacies in ways that we sometimes problem solve, some advice that Ive learned from reading the text that can make sure you don't make that error in the future would be to always go with your gut feeling. Just because new evidence has arose, in which may contradict what you may believe does not mean that your belief may not be true and you have to all of a sudden switch up on what YOU believe. I would also suggest to do further research. Don't just believe something because one piece of evidence arose contradicting your belief. Look in depth about the topic do research from different sites and get others perspectives. Stay true to yourself.

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While I do agree that trusting one's intuition is important, I would not assign it too much weight when it comes to decision making. We know that we are highly prone to errors in cognition and biased decision making. What we may call a "gut feeling" might, in fact, be a highly subjective perspective without adequate grounding on facts. I would always choose to support my ideas with reason and logic, along with empirical evidence. In my view, in order to stay "true" to oneself for which one must constantly challenge one's beliefs and perspectives, to check their veracity and validity.

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