Speaking for myself, I think that rationalizing does typically (always?) involve ignoring something. Not ignoring the first piece of inconvenient data, necessarily, but the horrible inelegance of my ad-hoc auxiliary hypotheses, or such.
Speaking for myself, I think that rationalizing does typically (always?) involve ignoring something. Not ignoring the first piece of inconvenient data, necessarily, but the horrible inelegance of my ad-hoc auxiliary hypotheses, or such.