Comment author: wedrifid 05 January 2012 09:03:47AM 0 points [-]

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

Believe stuff for crazy reasons (biased instincts, poor processing of data, etc). That's irrational knowledge - even if it happens to be wrong.

Comment author: imd 05 January 2012 10:19:52PM 1 point [-]

I was thinking more something like ethics.

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: imd 01 January 2012 09:48:22AM 1 point [-]

Perhaps the difference between the Inquisition and Feynman is that science specifically claims it has nothing to say about morality, so it can't justify killing anyone in its name.