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The Funnel of Righteousness

Peter Worley tells us how to be right, righter, rightest.

We enjoy being right. There are many ways to delight in this pleasure, some more noble than others. We might feel good when we’ve made a good argument, drawing on good evidence, cogently structured. Or we might only care about others believing us, no matter how that’s achieved. But there are few who derive no pleasure at all from being right, or being thought to be right.

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