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Matthew Parris

Why I intend to become an addict

30 October 2014

3:00 PM

30 October 2014

3:00 PM

When the White Queen told Alice she had sometimes believed as many as six contradictory things before breakfast, she spoke for us all. But our irrationality goes further than a simple after-the-event report. Even while we’re believing it, we can know that something we’re believing contradicts something else we believe.

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