Comment on Rationality: Appreciating Cognitive Algorithms

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 02:27:57 GMT

Rather than talking about only a single case where you might be tempted to conclude that X is rational because it leads to your desired conclusion that global warming is false, or true, or whatever; one can explain why this (tends probabilistically to) work in the general case, given the general sort of universe we live in - that's "systematically".

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