#rationality — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #rationality, aggregated by home.social.
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Once Again, Economic Siege; Once Again, Resistance Economy
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#Economy #a #again #And #at #becomes #behavior #But #capacity #concept #cooperation #country’s #crises #economic #economies #from #greater #in #into #IS #Islam #lies #more #moves #not #ONCE #only #overcome #Point #power #precisely #pressure #rationality #real #reality #Résistance #Resources #responsibility #shifts #siege #social #societal #the #Theoretical #this #Times #TO #toward #under #Which?
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The Rational Conclusion of Doomerism Is Violence
https://www.campbellramble.ai/p/the-rational-conclusion
#HackerNews #Doomerism #Violence #Rationality #Debate #Society
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A message of "we will manage the decline slightly better than the other guys" simply does not inspire the kind of massive, grassroots mobilization required to overcome deeply entrenched, aggressive opposition from the billionaire interests in both parties.
Wrote @chadloder on 2026-04-10 at Bluesky
#liberals #voteBlue #DemocraticParty #values #morals #debate #rationality #faith #beliefs
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Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1890-02), “The Sign of the Four,” ch. 1 [Holmes], Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, Vol. 45 (US) / 1 (UK)More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #doyle #arthurconandoyle #holmes #sherlockholmes #sherlock #detective #exactitude #rationality #romanticism
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I've been putting off posting about my 5,000+ essay downloads in deference to more 'important' pieces, but since my weekend was occupied plotting a new story idea, I have space for a short celebratory piece. Hooray for me. 🥳
https://philosophics.blog/2026/04/06/celebration/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
The two favourites were 'Objectivity Is an Illusion' and 'Rational Ghosts: Why Enlightenment Democracy Was Built to Fail'. Follow the link.
#philosophy #essays #writing #reading #democracy #fiction #nonfiction #objectivity #rationality #celebrate
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THE TICK: And isn’t sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean, all of you get is one trick, rational thinking. But when you’re good and crazy, oohoo-hoo-hoo-hoo, the sky’s the limit!
Ben Edlund (b. 1968) American cartoonist, writer, producer
The Tick (cartoon), 02×09 “Ants in the Pants!” (1995-11-18) [w. Ralph Soll]More about this quote: wist.info/edlund-ben/221/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benedlund #thetick #mindset #potential #rationality #sanity #thought
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#TrumpVirus #war (within & projected)
vs. #Peace #democracy #civilization #rationality #collaboration #diplomacy #WeThePeople #truth #brotherhood
A madman enabled by equally #evil #GQP Congress & #disinformation #media who seem not to see or care.
He is not America, not even at its worst.
He is not a normal human, much less someone fit to serve the people, including those in his #cult, who suffer too. :-(
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce. What it should produce is a belief that knowledge is attainable in a measure, though with difficulty; that much of what passes for knowledge at any given time is likely to be more or less mistaken, but that the mistakes can be rectified by care and industry. In acting upon our beliefs, we should be very cautious where a small error would mean disaster; nevertheless it is upon our beliefs that we must act. This state of mind is rather difficult: it requires a high degree of intellectual culture without emotional atrophy. But though difficult it is not impossible; it is in fact the scientific temper. Knowledge, like other good things, is difficult, but not impossible; the dogmatist forgets the difficulty, the skeptic denies the possibility. Both are mistaken, and their errors, when wide-spread, produce social disaster.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Good Life, Part 1, ch. 2 “The Aims of Education” (1926)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/826…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #action #caution #dogma #dogmatism #education #knowledge #rationality #science #selfawareness #skeptic #skepticism #truthseeking #pedagogy
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce. What it should produce is a belief that knowledge is attainable in a measure, though with difficulty; that much of what passes for knowledge at any given time is likely to be more or less mistaken, but that the mistakes can be rectified by care and industry. In acting upon our beliefs, we should be very cautious where a small error would mean disaster; nevertheless it is upon our beliefs that we must act. This state of mind is rather difficult: it requires a high degree of intellectual culture without emotional atrophy. But though difficult it is not impossible; it is in fact the scientific temper. Knowledge, like other good things, is difficult, but not impossible; the dogmatist forgets the difficulty, the skeptic denies the possibility. Both are mistaken, and their errors, when wide-spread, produce social disaster.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Good Life, Part 1, ch. 2 “The Aims of Education” (1926)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/826…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #action #caution #dogma #dogmatism #education #knowledge #rationality #science #selfawareness #skeptic #skepticism #truthseeking #pedagogy
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce. What it should produce is a belief that knowledge is attainable in a measure, though with difficulty; that much of what passes for knowledge at any given time is likely to be more or less mistaken, but that the mistakes can be rectified by care and industry. In acting upon our beliefs, we should be very cautious where a small error would mean disaster; nevertheless it is upon our beliefs that we must act. This state of mind is rather difficult: it requires a high degree of intellectual culture without emotional atrophy. But though difficult it is not impossible; it is in fact the scientific temper. Knowledge, like other good things, is difficult, but not impossible; the dogmatist forgets the difficulty, the skeptic denies the possibility. Both are mistaken, and their errors, when wide-spread, produce social disaster.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Good Life, Part 1, ch. 2 “The Aims of Education” (1926)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/826…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #action #caution #dogma #dogmatism #education #knowledge #rationality #science #selfawareness #skeptic #skepticism #truthseeking #pedagogy
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce. What it should produce is a belief that knowledge is attainable in a measure, though with difficulty; that much of what passes for knowledge at any given time is likely to be more or less mistaken, but that the mistakes can be rectified by care and industry. In acting upon our beliefs, we should be very cautious where a small error would mean disaster; nevertheless it is upon our beliefs that we must act. This state of mind is rather difficult: it requires a high degree of intellectual culture without emotional atrophy. But though difficult it is not impossible; it is in fact the scientific temper. Knowledge, like other good things, is difficult, but not impossible; the dogmatist forgets the difficulty, the skeptic denies the possibility. Both are mistaken, and their errors, when wide-spread, produce social disaster.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Good Life, Part 1, ch. 2 “The Aims of Education” (1926)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/826…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #action #caution #dogma #dogmatism #education #knowledge #rationality #science #selfawareness #skeptic #skepticism #truthseeking #pedagogy
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce. What it should produce is a belief that knowledge is attainable in a measure, though with difficulty; that much of what passes for knowledge at any given time is likely to be more or less mistaken, but that the mistakes can be rectified by care and industry. In acting upon our beliefs, we should be very cautious where a small error would mean disaster; nevertheless it is upon our beliefs that we must act. This state of mind is rather difficult: it requires a high degree of intellectual culture without emotional atrophy. But though difficult it is not impossible; it is in fact the scientific temper. Knowledge, like other good things, is difficult, but not impossible; the dogmatist forgets the difficulty, the skeptic denies the possibility. Both are mistaken, and their errors, when wide-spread, produce social disaster.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Good Life, Part 1, ch. 2 “The Aims of Education” (1926)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/826…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #action #caution #dogma #dogmatism #education #knowledge #rationality #science #selfawareness #skeptic #skepticism #truthseeking #pedagogy
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📉🤖 Oh, look! Another treatise on why #academia swapped out rational math for the lazy allure of "good enough" #AI. Apparently, #ImageNet and the irresistible siren call of not specifying goals have won over academia's finest. Way to go, Guy Freeman, for enlightening us on how to achieve #mediocrity in the most complex way possible. 🎓💡
https://gfrm.in/posts/why-decision-theory-lost/index.html #rationality #innovation #HackerNews #ngated -
The #economics of avoided effort can be funny: we pay #money to outsource exercise ...and then pay again to do the exercise ourselves. Want more examples?
In this post, I elaborate, propose solutions, answer objections, etc.
I'm curious to know which of the experiments you have tried. How did it go? What surprised you?
#rationality #exercise #health #productivity #timeManagement
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First in a series where I ask Claude to analyse the Two Valleys parable from various perspectives.
Sure, you could have run the stories through yourself. In fact, you still can, but this was the start of my dialogue. I centre the dialogue on my anti-Enlightenment sentiments.
#philosophy #blog #podcast #ai #claudeai #generativeAI #dialogue #analysis #dialogue #Enlightenment #critique #justice #rationality #progress #consent #parable #perspective
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Hear Reason, or she’ll make you feel her.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1744 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/15…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichard #poorrichardsalmanac #intelligence #objectivity #rationality #reality #reason #reasoning #sensibility #thinking #thought #goodsense
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"Better a known rival than an unpredictable friend." - Futurist Jim Carroll
There's a lot of talk online about what happens when partnerships become unstable.
When one side of a partnership slides over the abyss of rationality, into a mindset of madness.
When what was once reliable becomes volatile, when the predictable becomes uncertain, and the rational, irrational.
And the lesson is that you have to pick your partners carefully.
Strategically.
Wisely.
With caution.
With due diligence.
With both eyes wide open and elbows up.
You'll never move forward if you keep trying to rely on a relationship that has become untenable.
Partnership involves predictable, rational action.
And when that disappears, so should the reliance on the partnership - because it becomes time to form new ones.
Those partnerships might involve choices that, in an old world, might not have made sense but, in a new world, demand attention.
That's simply reality!
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Futurist Jim Carroll often speaks about the importance of organizations to develop the capability for 'fast partnerships.' He realizes it now applies to nations, too.
**#Partnership** **#Strategy** **#Alliances** **#Trust** **#Reliability** **#Choices** **#Change** **#Wisdom** **#Caution** **#Reality** **#Relationships** **#Stability** **#Leadership** **#Adaptation** **#NewWorld** **#DueDiligence** **#Rationality** **#Forward** **#Decisions** **#Resilience** **#Unpredictable** **#Strategic** **#Eyes** **#Elbows** **#Onwards**
Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/01/daily-inspiration-better-a-known-rival-than-an-unpredictable-friend/
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a common issue with 'conspiracy theories' and rigid rationality/materialism is the certainty
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The decisions you can't explain are often the ones you got right.
Pattern recognition vs. protocol compliance: why your most sophisticated computational resource is the one you've been trained to override.
🔗 https://kairos-prometheon.com/en/blog/2026-01-25-pattern-recognition/
#PatternRecognition #Intuition #DecisionMaking #Rationality #Sovereignty #Philosophy
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The decisions you can't explain are often the ones you got right.
Pattern recognition vs. protocol compliance: why your most sophisticated computational resource is the one you've been trained to override.
🔗 https://kairos-prometheon.com/en/blog/2026-01-25-pattern-recognition/
#PatternRecognition #Intuition #DecisionMaking #Rationality #Sovereignty #Philosophy
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The decisions you can't explain are often the ones you got right.
Pattern recognition vs. protocol compliance: why your most sophisticated computational resource is the one you've been trained to override.
🔗 https://kairos-prometheon.com/en/blog/2026-01-25-pattern-recognition/
#PatternRecognition #Intuition #DecisionMaking #Rationality #Sovereignty #Philosophy
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The decisions you can't explain are often the ones you got right.
Pattern recognition vs. protocol compliance: why your most sophisticated computational resource is the one you've been trained to override.
🔗 https://kairos-prometheon.com/en/blog/2026-01-25-pattern-recognition/
#PatternRecognition #Intuition #DecisionMaking #Rationality #Sovereignty #Philosophy
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The decisions you can't explain are often the ones you got right.
Pattern recognition vs. protocol compliance: why your most sophisticated computational resource is the one you've been trained to override.
🔗 https://kairos-prometheon.com/en/blog/2026-01-25-pattern-recognition/
#PatternRecognition #Intuition #DecisionMaking #Rationality #Sovereignty #Philosophy
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Reality Happens Once. Facts Happen Many Times. After writing about 'The Trouble with Facts' yesterday, I realised that the polysemy of 'facts' introduces category errors. Not all facts are created equal.
👉 https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/23/reality-happens-once-facts-happen-many-times/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #language #ontology #epistemology #facts #objectivity #cognition #perception #memory #law #evidence #polysemy #truth #podcast #blog #reasoning #rationality #causation -
One Sentence at a Time: A Quantitative #History of Rationality in Economic Thought https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:38na2_v1&r=&r=big
"… Combining large language model–based semantic analysis with bibliometric and network methods, we identify and cluster discussions of #rationality across time and scales, such as the circulation of #boundedRationality and the emergence of #behavioralEconomics."
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One Sentence at a Time: A Quantitative #History of Rationality in Economic Thought https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:38na2_v1&r=&r=big
"… Combining large language model–based semantic analysis with bibliometric and network methods, we identify and cluster discussions of #rationality across time and scales, such as the circulation of #boundedRationality and the emergence of #behavioralEconomics."
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One Sentence at a Time: A Quantitative #History of Rationality in Economic Thought https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:38na2_v1&r=&r=big
"… Combining large language model–based semantic analysis with bibliometric and network methods, we identify and cluster discussions of #rationality across time and scales, such as the circulation of #boundedRationality and the emergence of #behavioralEconomics."
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One Sentence at a Time: A Quantitative #History of Rationality in Economic Thought https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:38na2_v1&r=&r=big
"… Combining large language model–based semantic analysis with bibliometric and network methods, we identify and cluster discussions of #rationality across time and scales, such as the circulation of #boundedRationality and the emergence of #behavioralEconomics."
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I discuss A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis, Chapter 1: A Genealogy of Insufficiency – From Ancient Greece through the 20th Century.
👉 https://youtu.be/A-yoDtJ_ICE
#philosophy #language #video #youtube #genealogy #hypothesis #foucault #semantics #pragmatics #communication #power #ideology #structure #plato #aristotle #Wittgenstein #shadows #augustine #Locke #Liebnitz #Nietzsche #Gödel #Saussure #barthes #shannon #cognition #cognitivescience #rationality
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I discuss A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis, Chapter 1: A Genealogy of Insufficiency – From Ancient Greece through the 20th Century.
👉 https://youtu.be/A-yoDtJ_ICE
#philosophy #language #video #youtube #genealogy #hypothesis #foucault #semantics #pragmatics #communication #power #ideology #structure #plato #aristotle #Wittgenstein #shadows #augustine #Locke #Liebnitz #Nietzsche #Gödel #Saussure #barthes #shannon #cognition #cognitivescience #rationality
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I discuss A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis, Chapter 1: A Genealogy of Insufficiency – From Ancient Greece through the 20th Century.
👉 https://youtu.be/A-yoDtJ_ICE
#philosophy #language #video #youtube #genealogy #hypothesis #foucault #semantics #pragmatics #communication #power #ideology #structure #plato #aristotle #Wittgenstein #shadows #augustine #Locke #Liebnitz #Nietzsche #Gödel #Saussure #barthes #shannon #cognition #cognitivescience #rationality
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I discuss A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis, Chapter 1: A Genealogy of Insufficiency – From Ancient Greece through the 20th Century.
👉 https://youtu.be/A-yoDtJ_ICE
#philosophy #language #video #youtube #genealogy #hypothesis #foucault #semantics #pragmatics #communication #power #ideology #structure #plato #aristotle #Wittgenstein #shadows #augustine #Locke #Liebnitz #Nietzsche #Gödel #Saussure #barthes #shannon #cognition #cognitivescience #rationality
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I discuss A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis, Chapter 1: A Genealogy of Insufficiency – From Ancient Greece through the 20th Century.
👉 https://youtu.be/A-yoDtJ_ICE
#philosophy #language #video #youtube #genealogy #hypothesis #foucault #semantics #pragmatics #communication #power #ideology #structure #plato #aristotle #Wittgenstein #shadows #augustine #Locke #Liebnitz #Nietzsche #Gödel #Saussure #barthes #shannon #cognition #cognitivescience #rationality
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🐦 Are #birds conscious beings? – A surprisingly clear answer 😉
As Prof. Dr. #WolfSinger emphasizes in our #Zoomposium, there are good reasons to attribute #consciousness, #rationality, and #autonomy to birds.
📺 #Interview: https://youtu.be/C2FVIbAyaH4
📎 #Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/03/22/kann-das-gehirn-das-gehirn-verstehen/
#Consciousness #AnimalConsciousness #Neuroscience #PhilosophyOfMind #WolfSinger
#Cognition #Self-Organization #HardProblemOfConsciousness #Evolution #Zoomposium -
A quotation from Henry Commager
When a people are confronted with problems that are both incomprehensible and unbearable, they lash out not at those who contrived the problems but at those who expose them. When they are confronted by moral problems that they find insoluble, or perhaps intolerable, they blame the moralists. The anxieties, tensions, revulsions of our day create an atmosphere in which it is almost impossible to think clearly and dispassionately about just those problems which most imperatively require reason and objectivity — problems of adjustment to fundamental change.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Speech (1971-04-10), “The University and the Community of Learning,” Kent State University, OhioMore about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #anxiety #backlash #blame #change #clarity #messenger #objectivity #problems #rationality #reaction #reason #tension #thoughtfulness #shootthemessenger
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10 Laughable #Hadith That Make No Sense
#GodlessAndGrounded #AtheistVoice #RationalityMatters
From flying donkeys to cosmic bedsheets, some hadith sound less like #divine wisdom and more like #ancient fan fiction. In this video, we break down 10 laughable hadith that defy #logic, reason, and basic common sense—and expose how blind belief turns absurdity into “ #faith.” Brace yourself. #Rationality is about to collide with #mythology.
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A quotation from Chris Boucher
LEELA: I know, I know, there’s no such thing as magic.
THE DOCTOR: Exactly! To the rational mind, nothing is inexplicable, only unexplained.Chris Boucher (1943-2022) British TV screenwriter, script editor, novelist
Doctor Who (1963), 14×05 “The Robots of Death,” Part 1 (1977-01-29)More info about this quote: wist.info/boucher-chris/4749/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #chrisboucher #doctorwho #fourthdoctor #explanation #ignorance #inexplicability #magic #rationality #reason #unexplained #mystery
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Bayes’ theorem tells us how evidence should move belief. But with wildly different priors and loyalty-weighted likelihoods, polarisation becomes inevitable.
https://philosophics.blog/2025/09/21/bayes-in-the-culture-war-how-priors-become-prison-walls/
#Probability #Statistics #Political #Politics #Epistemology #Tribal #Beliefs #Public #logic #Reason #Rationality #Perspective #Perception #Video #Philosophy #MoralPhilosophy #Moral #morality
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A quotation from Robert Ingersoll
The Church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness. Tyranny likes courtiers, flatterers, followers, fawners, and superstition wants believers, disciples, zealots, hypocrites, and subscribers.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1873-12) “Individuality,” Chicago Free Religious SocietySourcing, notes: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #Christianity #church #freethought #rationality #religion #superstition #thought #tyranny #freethinker
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A quotation from Thomas Fuller
Thou art not bound to believe any one positively against thy Reason, which God hath given thee to be thy Guide.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 2019 (1727)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/7…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #belief #divinegift #God #intellect #makesense #rationality #reason
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“Adults demand caution and rationality and fucking measured discourse. While they sit around doing that, the world keeps burning.”
#AdolescentsRomansNouvellesEtcPourLaJeunesse #Adults #AmitieRomansNouvellesEtcPourLaJeunesse #book #caution #CuteMutants #demand #doing #fiction #friendship #FriendshipJuvenileFiction #fucking #juvenileWorks #keepsBurning #LGBTGeneral #LGBTQGenreFiction #measuredDiscourse #ParanormalFiction #quote #rationality #SJWhitby #SexualMinoritiesFiction #sitAround #SuperheroScienceFiction #Superheroes #SuperheroesJuvenileFiction #SuperhérosRomansNouvellesEtcPourLaJeunesse #TeenFiction #Teenagers #TeenagersJuvenileFiction #world #YoungAdultFictionNewZealand
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I am driven by my emotions.
"Our opinions generally have emotional rather than intellectual roots, and indeed rationality largely functions as a post hoc justification. Our political opinions, ultimately, are what we feel about the world, not what we think about it. And in turn, our opinions about particular events have a lot to do with how we feel about the world in general. It’s not an exaggeration to say that most people’s views about the kind of things that happen today are extensions of concerns of their own ego. And consequently, invitations to change their minds because new facts emerge, or because old ideas are discredited by new evidence, are in fact a threat to the strength and even survival of that ego."
"But few people, especially those who have received a decent education, want to acknowledge that their views are based on emotion and not reason. They therefore try to argue".
https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/another-country
@histodons @psychology @socialpsych @ukraine @israel
#disillusionment #disgust #power #leadership #traitors #personalSafety #feelings #emotions #indignation #moralBeauty #beauty #values #principles #morals #debate #rationality #faith #beliefs #USWars #lawAndOrder #ruleOfLaw #internationalLaw #CambridgeSpies #Cambridge #spies #ColdWar #psychology #Stalin #cult #personalityCult #hagiography #history #ruthlessness #proZionism #WeStandWithIsrael #StandWithIsrael #masculinity #longRead #geopolitics #Zelensky #Ukraine
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A quotation from Algernon Sidney
For this reason, the law is established which no passion can disturb. It is void of desire and fear, lust and anger. It is mens sine affectu, written reason, retaining some measure of the divine perfection. It does not enjoin that which pleases a weak, frail man; but, without any regard to persons, commands that which is good, and punishes evil in all, whether rich or poor, high or low. It is deaf, inexorable, inflexible.
Algernon Sidney (1623-1683) English politician, republican political theorist [also Sydney]
Discourses Concerning Government, ch. 3, § 15 (1689)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/sidney-algernon/7533…
#quote #quotes #quotation #blindjustice #dispassionate #equalprotectionunderthelaw #equalprotection #justice #law #legal #system #rationality #reason #unemotional
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If you think people argue rationally more often than emotionally, you don't understand people.
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@turvanen Uskomusten ja toiminnan välimatka on toisinaan pitkä ja mutkikas. SEP:ssa äskettäin uusittu entry tavoittaa siitä vain siivun, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bounded-rationality/, ja viime vuonna perusteellisesti uusittu Action RE:yineen kaikkineenkin lähinnä kontekstoi, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/action/. Kysymys siitä, miksi tiedosta (ja tahdosta) ei seuraa tietynlaista toimintaa, on liian iso tähän vuodenaikaan.
Se on varmaan totta, että kukaan ei halua tauteja läheiselleen, ja useimmat kai uskovat, että voisi tartuttaa, ja että sitä voisi ainakin hillitä, ellei aivan estää. Samaten aika monet, ellei peräti useimmat, arvelevat voittavansa lotossa, jos käyttäytymisestä päättelisi.
Itse en useinkaan tiedä, mistä ohjaudun, vaikka yhä osaan (oheismateriaalin tai konteksti-vihjeiden avulla) perustella toimintaani pätevästi, jos sille päälle satun. Kliseisiin en kuitenkaan sorru, ja mieluummin jatkan ymmälläni.
#rationality #reason #knowledge #boundedRationality #action #toiminta #covid
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What is #PurplleLite?
#PurpleLite refers to a #CenterLeft, pragmatic approach that blends #Liberal and #Conservative views, emphasizing #Rationality and #CriticalThinking. While it leans more toward progressive values, particularly on social issues, it adopts moderate or #PracticalSolutions on economic matters, seeking balanced and effective outcomes rather than ideological extremes.
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Emotion can inhibit reflective thinking, but are all emotions equally inhibitory?
Reflective thinking was inhibited more by a video designed to elicit disgust than a video designed to elicit fear/thrill (among about 50 people who completed 60 reflection tests): https://doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S471624
#decisionScience #psychology #criticalThinking #emotion #logic #rationality #epistemology
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Will this one simple trick get people to think more reflectively? As usual, no.
In two experiments in multiple countries, a brief scientific article describing the benefits of intuitive or reflective thinking didn't impact performance on tests of intuitive and reflective thinking.
https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12961
#cogSci #decisionScience #psychology #priming #nudge #rationality #metaScience
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Reasoning in Psychopathology; Rationality and Irrationality in Mental Disorders by Valentina Cardella & Amelia Gangemi, 2024
Reasoning in Psychopathology adopts a pragmatic conception of reasoning, demonstrating how people with mental disorders develop characteristic strategies of reasoning depending on the particular disorder they have and the emotions they experience.
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