Rationality is only bridled irrationality.
-- Bas van Fraassen, Laws and Symmetry
I think Hume’s ‘reason is the slave of the passions’ expresses the sentiment more clearly.
Rescue by saying
Rationality is only bridled heuristics.
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-- Bas van Fraassen, Laws and Symmetry
I think Hume’s ‘reason is the slave of the passions’ expresses the sentiment more clearly.
Rescue by saying
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