FeatherlessBiped comments on Scientific Evidence, Legal Evidence, Rational Evidence - Less Wrong

37 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 August 2007 05:36AM

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Comment author: imd 05 January 2012 08:51:07AM -1 points [-]

All the kinds of knowledge you describe are subclasses of rational knowledge. Is there irrational knowledge?

Comment author: FeatherlessBiped 08 January 2012 05:17:31AM 0 points [-]

According to classical philosophy (e.g. Aristotle), sense knowledge is knowledge, but knowledge of a kind which does not depend on a rational faculty. One could call that irrational, a-rational, non-rational, pre-rational, etc., depending on the how one has sliced up the phenomenology.