Should we remain totally clueless about everything forever since we cannot know everything? Or is it more pragmatic to be constantly re-evaluating our understanding of the world with new evidence? That would be the eternal temporary conclusions that we pragmatically base our understanding of the world under.
No one has stated in that "god is impossible and its fact that he doesn't exist". What most people say when arguing against the concept of god is that there is no evidence for god and so why would we believe in a god without evidence for one?
I also question your usage of "broader terms". I don't know what line you want to draw with this. We can be accepting of people's fears of vampires being real and start caging coffins and stabbing fresh corpses in the chest with a holy spike. Or we could take into account the flat earth society's theories for geography.
Why should we think broadly about these concepts but not those? What of the delusions of the mad? Should we accept their propositions?
Its not about thinking narrowly. Its about thinking critically. To those on the outside it may seem one in the same but it is not.
You can do what you like and believe what you like -but, overall, we should think and act in a way which allows us to most efficiently collect data while not making the whole thing a useless endeavor.
You don't have to accept the delusions of the mad, but they certainly have had to accept the delusions of the supposedly learned -the horrible consequences of their temporary conclusions -which, in some cases, cause madness, and often make things worse. That sort of thing.
This forum is a great idea, generally -but how much of what is posted actually leads to something positive?
We do not simply make temporary conclusions, they find their way into actions. If we acknowledge our ignorance and refuse to make temporary conclusions, we are less likely to act in ignorance -and more likely to be cautious, more efficient, more likely to move beyond temporary conclusions to actual conclusions, etc.
really have to go do stuff