Difference between revisions of "Rational"

{{DES | des = Usually, "rational" is a Humpty-Dumpty word, that means whatever the user finds is convenient to club his oponents with. Either by defining rationality to specifically disclude an opponent's methods (as objectivists do) or by making rationality so diffuse that all the users methods are included (much the same way new-agers use the term "energy".  Actual human rationality consists of MANY methods besides logic, notably [[Informal Fallacies|informal fallacies]] and [[Heuristic Reasoning|heuristic reasoning]].) | show=}}

{{DES | des = Usually, "rational" is a Humpty-Dumpty word, that means whatever the user finds is convenient to club his oponents with. Either by defining rationality to specifically disclude an opponent's methods (as objectivists do) or by making rationality so diffuse that all the users methods are included (much the same way new-agers use the term "energy".  Actual human rationality consists of MANY methods besides logic, notably [[Informal Fallacies|informal fallacies]] and [[Heuristic Reasoning|heuristic reasoning]].) | show=}}

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