15 The primary technique they recommend is what they call the “consider-the-opposite” strategy, one example of which involves explicitly pausing during reflection “to consider why your judgment might be wrong.” (147) They point out that one difficulty with this strategy is its range: “it would surely be a mistake for us to adopt the strategy for every belief we entertain.” (148) So they ultimately recommend a narrowed version, in which you adopt the strategy only when considering beliefs relevant to “highly significant problems in which short-term reliability is very important.” (148).
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