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Stuart,

Yes, I grok you.

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Blackadder --

This is all true, I think. At the same time, I'm not sure that it undermines my point. What you say shows that we may not care when someone perceives a $5 wine as a $90 wine -- de gustibus non est disputandum, after all -- whereas we do care when the truth of an idea is misperceived.

Right . . . but I think the same sort of cognitive bias can cause our perceptions to change in either case. If I think a $5 wine is a $90 wine, then even though my taste experience might be "valid" in some sense, it's still the case that my perceptions have changed simply because the label changed. So too, if I think a run-of-the-mill idea is insightful just because of the name attached to it, then my perceptions have been altered just because of the label.

Am I making any sense?

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