Reasons: How Individuals Change Their Mind

Individuals change their minds due to many reasons. One being intuition and what they feel on the inside. If something doesn’t accumulate or feel right, they can begin questioning what they know and whether or not it is true. Something brought up in an individual’s environment could also alter the way they think about something. For instance, having a lot of new and improved evidence can lead one to rethink what they already know. Their reasoning is usually backed up with evidence, and when more refined evidence emerges that contradicts the old evidence, one can begin searching for other ideas. This brings up the other point of logic. An individual has to use logic to see whether or not an idea makes sense, and if it corresponds to the right evidence. If …show more content…
Galileo had set out and found lots of refined evidence from his own inventions. From that evidence he was able to use his logic and conclude that it would make more sense having the sun in the center, rather than the earth. Being able to convince the world to change their minds about a very crucial topic like this was near impossible. Copernicus published book the year that he died, and according to a letter that Galileo wrote, he had been “mocked”(Text 5). This prevented Galileo from sharing his own viewpoint. However, when he did, he had received a lot of backlash. This was because there wasn’t a lot of evidence around to change the minds of the world. However it was enough to change the minds of major scientists like Fontenelle and Newton, who set out and wrote their own books (Text 8). With major scientists around presenting a lot of exclusive data, the Church started to have an open mind about heliocentrism and in 1758 lifted the heliocentric ban. (Text 8). Eventually, enough evidence was around to convince the whole world that having the sun in the center was more logically