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Maintaining or even strengthening a belief despite new contradictory information
Belief perseverance (also known as conceptual conservatism) is maintaining a belief despite new information that firmly contradicts it. Since rationality involves conceptual flexibility, belief perseverance is consistent with the view that human beings act at times in an irrational manner. Philosopher F.C.S. Schiller holds that belief perseverance "deserves to rank among the fundamental 'laws' of ... Wikipedia