Exactly. If they believe one thing, it’s true, if they believe the opposite, it’s also true. They have so much faith that their beliefs are true that they never even consider assessing them. It’s like Schrödinger’s cat - they never open in the box that contains their own beliefs, so they can exist in whatever state they want at any time.
Or that believing one thing completely contradicts the other thing.
Exactly. If they believe one thing, it’s true, if they believe the opposite, it’s also true. They have so much faith that their beliefs are true that they never even consider assessing them. It’s like Schrödinger’s cat - they never open in the box that contains their own beliefs, so they can exist in whatever state they want at any time.
It helps that so many of them are religious, where you get a lot of practice doing mental gymnastics.