Conspiracy Theories¶
Cassam, Q. (2019). Conspiracy Theories. Polity Press.
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Primes¶
- Cromwell's Rule
- Ideology — theological certainty, conspiracy theory, and fundamentalism violate the rule by pinning a proposition at 1 (or its negation at 0), with predictable evidence-sterility.
This sourceCharacterizes conspiracy theories as 'self-sealing' — held in a way that is immune to revision by counter-evidence (disconfirmation re-explained as part of the plot) — a paradigm of an evidence-sterile boundary commitment pinned at certainty.
- Ideology — theological certainty, conspiracy theory, and fundamentalism violate the rule by pinning a proposition at 1 (or its negation at 0), with predictable evidence-sterility.
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