What Bertrand Russell thinks about mental models
British philosopher and logician (1872 to 1970), also a social critic; co-author with Alfred North Whitehead of Principia Mathematica (1910 to 1913), author of The Problems of Philosophy (1912), awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950.
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1 dated position, c. 1917, in their own words. Our reading of what Bertrand Russell has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingDo not act on customary beliefs where the action is disastrous unless they are wholly true
Their wordsA good working maxim in such matters is this: Do not trust customary beliefs so far as to perform actions which must be disastrous unless the beliefs in question are wholly true.