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When two ideas contradict each other, both cannot be fully true in the same sense — the tension between them is informative, not a problem to suppress.
Testing your beliefs against reality is the core practice of intellectual integrity. Epistemic honesty is not a personality trait — it is a discipline you build by systematically subjecting your schemas to evidence, welcoming disconfirmation, and refusing to protect comfortable models from uncomfortable data.