Rationality Quotes August 2012

Alejandro1

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Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules:

Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be voted up/down separately. (If they are strongly related, reply to your own comments. If strongly ordered, then go ahead and post them together.)
Do not quote yourself
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.

I wasn't trying to endorse the whole empiricist philosophy, and neither was Russell, at least in this quote. The rationality lesson it offers is not "radical empiricism good, radical rationalism bad" but more like "a wide base of principles with connections to experience good, a small base of abstract logical principles bad".

Recognising the weaknesses inherent in human logical deductions?

1hankx778714y

er, I agree my comment was poorly phrased. Instead of accusing him of giving positive credit to radical empiricism I probably should have said, while he's making a good point warning against the dangers of radical rationalism, he was failing to warn against the dangers of going too far in the direction of empiricism. That's why I prefer the quote I followed up with, it is more careful to reject both of these approaches.

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