Rationality is indeed about following reason where it takes you. This is very different from following wherever someone would have their feelings hurt if you didn't go. Of course, rationality also involves the use of priors, evidence, and accumulated information over your entire lifetime. You are not merely allowed but required to assign a very low prior, in the range of "bloody ridiculous", to propositions which contradict all your available information, or require some massively complex rationalization to be compatible with all your available information.
his is very different from following wherever someone would have their feelings hurt if you didn't go.
What did you have in mind specifically?
Of course, rationality also involves the use of priors, evidence, and accumulated information over your entire lifetime.
Rationality also involves paradigm shifts, revolutions and inversions. "Use priors" is not, should not be, a call for fundamental conservatism.
...You are not merely allowed but required to assign a very low prior, in the range of "bloody ridiculous", to propositions which
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