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comment by lil
lil  ·  3843 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: On Jumping to Conclusions  ·  

    I didn't realize that you were talking about his music
That's exactly my point. Given that people tend to jump to conclusions and beliefs about what other people mean - how can we check our assumptions?

If it isn't obvious from my post, I prefer that people check their assumptions. Do you or anyone else reading this engage in assumption-checking? Do people ask, what is my evidence for this assumption? If I think that maybe I see an error in someone else's thinking, do I consider ways to tell them that will be helpful to them, for example in a personal message?