Tag: rationality
experience before reason
You must have experience before reasoning is useful. Reasoning leads to mutually incommensurate outcomes and antinomies: it is a patch…
“nature” is not natural
Nature is a concept that needs to be clarified. If nature exists outside of areas man has civilized, then it…
to kill romances is to understand
Love… if we are desiring machines, if that is what makes us as individual subjects, our desire, then if you…
retroactive rationality through frivolity
To believe in rationality (the empirical process of science) is to establish the virtue of logic. This tends to defend…
What is the power of a story?
Finding balance entails much equating of efficiencies and min/max usage.Spending energy on something without tangible use is wasteful and unproductive.…
losing the reason to reason
We need reason in order to have conversations. The shared ability to equate symbolic sounds with objects and concepts allows…
Rationally planning your irrationality
Being rational is excellent. We intake and adapt to evidence to reach a goal. Yet, "instrumental rationality" allows us to…
Reasons are not Rational
Everyone has a reason for their actions. (If not, we can create one for them.) "Reason" is synonymous with rationality,…
Wisdom is the form of reason
Wisdom is where we stop thinking and begin applying the "form" of rationality. Wisdom is the catchphrase, clever reversal, and…
doubling down on rationality
We often appeal to rationality, yet seldom take it far enough. We partially problem solve, applying enough effort to get…