# Silent Theories

Author: Zack M. Davis
Originally published: 2013-01-14
Category: philosophy
Canonical URL: https://zackmdavis.net/blog/2013/Jan/silent-theories/

"I _like_ adherents of Ideology X; I really do. Wonderful people with noble goals. It's just genuinely hard to communicate with most of them, because I assign a fairly high probability to hypotheses that they consider unthinkable—not even that; the problem with unthinkable hypotheses is that you _can't_ consider them."