Comment by tylerlikes on How I started believing religion might actually matter for rationality and moral philosophy · 2024-09-19T23:13:06.285Z · LW · GW

Very interesting thoughts. The idea of a “trapped prior” (though not the term, of course) is something of a commonplace in Christian theology, where it might be considered a cognitive aspect of the fallen human condition, especially in the epistemology of the Augustinian school. Or consider a biblical text like Matthew 13: “And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.”