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How many rationalists would retain their belief in reason, if they could accurately visualize that hypothetical world in which there was no rationality and they themselves have become irrational?
I don't know. But I would. Irrationality is caused by ignorance, so there will always be tangent worlds (while regarding this current one as prime) in which I give up. There will always be a world where anything that is physically possible occurs. (and probably many where even that requirement doesn't hold)
To put it another way, there has been a moment in time when I was not rational. Is that reason to give up rationality forever? Time could be just another dimension, it's manipulation as far out of our grasp as that of other possible worlds.