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> why other will systematically deny all evidences

Sure, but they also do so for specific reasons, like that considering evidence failed them in the past in some significant way. Possibly they just didn't do it right, but it's just incorrect to think people are the way they are for no logical reason.

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A specific reason is not a logical reason; sure, the decision ‘made sense’ to that person at the time, but it’s irrational within the broader schema of life.

(I think that’s what you meant?)

It might be "irrational" in some sense with unbounded knowledge, but we only have bounded knowledge. I'm not sure using the former as a definition of "rationality" is useful. Rationality should be a sort of preferential ordering of choices according to one's bounded knowledge.

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