Breakfast, makes a suggestion that can be seen as a generalizationof the idea of constructive irrationality. His point is that irrationallystrong conviction is a guard against fickleness of mind: 'if beliefsthat saved lives were not held strongly, it would have been dis-advantageous in early human evolution.

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