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Comment author: gmweinberg 07 March 2009 09:29:27PM 2 points [-]

I'd rephrase this to emphasize the nonboolean nature of belief: an aspiring rationalist should seek to make his degree of belief in a proposition correspond to the strength of the evidence. It is also an error to have excessive confidence in a proposition that is most likely true.

Comment author: mariana 09 May 2009 09:34:16AM 0 points [-]

I guess you are implying that using fuzzy logic can be considered rational.

  1. I think that it means also being compliant with the inference rules
  2. On a colloquial tone it might mean that it has the expected result a certain process

But I think it is irrational to try to be completely rational given that there is still a lot we do not know, therefore obscure/weird things appear/happen.

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