Agnes Callard on the Theory of Everything
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The Proleptic Reason
Proleptic reasons allow you to be rational even when you know that your reasons aren't exactly the right ones. So what's a proleptic reason? How do people get themselves to care about things that they don't yet care about? And so there's a kind of paradox that would suggest, well, we should never try to get ourselves interested or into new things.
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