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Literary notes about gullibility (AI summary)

In literature, the word "gullibility" has been employed to highlight the delicate interplay between trust and skepticism, often contrasting innocence with the pretense of knowing truth. For instance, William James uses the term to illustrate how the appearance of knowledge can be aligned with one group, while simplicity and unwitting credulity belong to another, thereby framing gullibility as both a moral and epistemological state [1].
  1. The appearance of knowingness is on their side, of naïveté and gullibility on his.
    — from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

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