Agreed; those are important considerations. In general, I think a risk for rationalists is to change one’s behaviour on complex and important matters based on individual arguments which, while they appear plausible, don’t give the full picture. Cf Chesterton’s fence, naive rationalism, etc.
Agreed; those are important considerations. In general, I think a risk for rationalists is to change one’s behaviour on complex and important matters based on individual arguments which, while they appear plausible, don’t give the full picture. Cf Chesterton’s fence, naive rationalism, etc.