2) I’ve realized that I take the far easier path: I simply downgrade my model of someone’s rationality based on what I judge to be irrationality. The benchmark of a rational person is thus simply an apparent absence of such things.
For example, I notice belief in belief a lot, leading to confused minds: I’m thinking of one person who rationalizes incessantly. Or I may notice insufficiently clear thinking, often related to the use of passwords, along with the implicit disagreement with the creed that what the truth can destroy, it should. I’m thinking of one of my professors who clearly is opposed to reductionist cognitive psychology for what seems to me primarily wishful thinking rather than good reason, and approvingly notes that some cognitive processes can be ‘emergent’, and so on.
1) Why was this post downvoted?
2) I’ve realized that I take the far easier path: I simply downgrade my model of someone’s rationality based on what I judge to be irrationality. The benchmark of a rational person is thus simply an apparent absence of such things.
For example, I notice belief in belief a lot, leading to confused minds: I’m thinking of one person who rationalizes incessantly. Or I may notice insufficiently clear thinking, often related to the use of passwords, along with the implicit disagreement with the creed that what the truth can destroy, it should. I’m thinking of one of my professors who clearly is opposed to reductionist cognitive psychology for what seems to me primarily wishful thinking rather than good reason, and approvingly notes that some cognitive processes can be ‘emergent’, and so on.