We got here by way of intellectual muddle!

"What is declared obvious and 'natural' rarely is so. Recognition of this should teach us to think that the world is more flexible than it seems, for the established views have frequently emerged not through a process of faultless reasoning, but through centuries of intellectual muddle. There may be no good reason for things to be the way they are."

From Alain deBotton's The Consolations of Philosophy. Pg 23.

Can you give any examples!


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