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John Stuart Mill wrote in On Liberty that if a person’s ideas are not “not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, [they] will be held as . . . dead dogma, not . . . living truth.” Mill’s concern was that if people did not regularly challenge their opinions, they couldn’t truly understand or support them.Continue reading ““Dead Dogmas” and Chauvinisms: An Introduction to the Blog”