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If all reason were conscious, and if being human were, by definition, being a rational animal, and if rationality were logic, then the facts would set us all free.
Spencer rightly points out that, far from being enemies of religion, science and rationality were often most enthusiastically championed by men and women of faith.
The mathematical basis of rational behaviour was described in the 17th century by Blaise Pascal, but implications for philosophical thinking and rationality were laid out in the late 18th century by the "French Newton", Pierre-Simon Laplace.
It is argued that the tensions between platial notions of landscape and spatial rationality were unceasingly pertinent to the protracted struggles over political representation in the Low Countries during the revolt against Spain.
Secondly, the notion of full rationality, were it coherent, would leave us with justifications of arrangements that could not be reflexively endorsed by the individuals whose behavior they govern, so different are these individuals' actual beliefs and values from those which provide the reasons justifying the arrangements.
Before that point, the two dominant theories of scientific rationality were confirmationism (scientists should accept theories that are probably true, given the evidence) and falsificationism (scientists should reject theories that make false predictions about observables and replace them with theories that conform to all available evidence).
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They were "value-rational"—that is to say, their rationality was organized around values, not goals.
They were "value-rational" — that is to say, their rationality was organized around values, not goals.
I don't think "rationality" is the greatest thing necessarily; prejudice and psychopathy can hide behind supposedly "rational" thinking.
So, here again, rationality is not enough.
Not that rationality is that effective here.
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