Is rationality a delusion? | Sophie Archer, Timothy Williamson and Nina Power
Philosophy For Our Times
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I'm Being Rational, You're Just Being Paradoxic
i think complicated argumentative moves can obviously be used by the powerful to a sort of bamboozle the less privileged or those who are less practised at reasoning. So it's, it's really just a sort of rhetorical device to silence your opponents. I'm being rational, you're just being, well, i sadl i suppose i'm saying paradoxic. It's like saying some things aren't amenable to reason, and they shouldn't be, so we can't discuss themy. But i'm saying we need more, more discussion, not less.
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