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11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / a. Beliefs

5309	Beliefs are really enabling mechanisms for survival [Wilson,EO]
	Full Idea: Beliefs are really enabling mechanisms for survival.
	From: Edmund O. Wilson (On Human Nature [1978], Ch.1)
	A reaction: How does he know this proposition which he asserts so confidently? Obvious counterexamples seem to be utterly trivial beliefs, and self-destructive beliefs. What is the evolutionary value of low self-esteem? Still, you see his point.