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Ep 162: Steven Pinker’s ”Rationality” Chapter 7 ”Hits and False Alarms” Part 1

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The Purpose of Rationality

Stephen Pinker is a very accomplished renowned psychologist Cognitive scientist. The rules do not change so far as I am concerned of course It's just that a person's individual reasoning in the individual day-to-day life is sometimes not something that is Easily accessible to the average person you are not readily able to understand your own thoughts This is why Popularian philosophy Preparing epistemology is richer because we can all all us Objectively look at historic examples of what's going on in science and how knowledge was created there How knowledge is created there? We will say that we can't know with certainty is very good Okay, he says that we can never know with certainty excellent full marks on that

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