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Rationality and Cognitive Science (with Anna Riedl)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The Relationship Between Rationality and Wisdom

There is some work by John Ververky that describes wisdom as some form of meta rationality. So then wisdom is the process by which we become increasingly rational? Yes. It's a fascinating view on it. What do you get out of that way of looking at wisdom? You need self-reflection and given that you can transform seemingly unsolvable problems that are completely intractable to your action into simple solutions that you suddenly can act on. And what you need for that is what he says inside.

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