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Frank says that "most people when asked what they believe simply tell you. Why do you, in order to find out your beliefs, go through the fantastically roundabout process of directing a thought-reading machine to your own brain and then finding out what you believe on the basis of the machine readings?" The Epistemologist replies, "What other scientific, objective way is there of finding out what I believe?"


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