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Comment author: OrphanWilde 15 May 2013 07:44:33PM 3 points [-]

Empiricism is a bias, by the same token. But it's a bias that works.

The "authoritative and persuasive" kinds of arguments are the arguments that work, that show something about the universe with slightly better accuracy than other kinds of arguments that have been posed. That's why we've adopted them.

Rationality will never be deep. All beliefs and idea procured from rationality are at best transitive.