Marcus du Sautoy Meets Steven Pinker - Why Rationality Matters
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Is There a Difference Between Logic and Reason?
To do logic, you have to do something that can often be quite irrational. You forget the entirety of your world knowledge. That's what makes logic, and indeed academic thinking, so n to people who haven't been immersed in schooling non western peoples children. In legal reasoning, for example, you may want to deliberately blind yourself to prejudicial factors like the race of the defendant. Sometimes you want to forget about superficial similarity, so that you can call a a porpoise a mammal instead of a fish,. where it's closer to a deductive system. And so logic is obviously an indispensable tool. Computers are basically logic; there are cases in which you really do want to forget
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