(whimsical answer) Perhaps because pure rationality is so elusive that once you start caring about it, you start to notice how things which you want to fit the “rationality-shaped hole” don’t really do it, and then keep looking; but you can always say “this is my stop” when you see something you can do about the world with the knowledge you have found, and you will have some experience of judging things in a more… solid way then.
It’s like alchemical gold—in a way, more precious than the true substance.
(whimsical answer) Perhaps because pure rationality is so elusive that once you start caring about it, you start to notice how things which you want to fit the “rationality-shaped hole” don’t really do it, and then keep looking; but you can always say “this is my stop” when you see something you can do about the world with the knowledge you have found, and you will have some experience of judging things in a more… solid way then.
It’s like alchemical gold—in a way, more precious than the true substance.