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Ideas for B Hale / C Wright, Posidonius and Gabriel M.A. Segal

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 8. Naturalising Reason

3125	Psychology studies the way rationality links desires and beliefs to causality [Segal]
	Full Idea: A person's desires and beliefs tend to cause what they tend to rationalise. This coordination of causality and rationalisation lies at the heart of psychology.
	From: Gabriel M.A. Segal (A Slim Book about Narrow Content [2000], 5.3)

2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 1. Fallacy

12223	It is a fallacy to explain the obscure with the even more obscure [Hale/Wright]
	Full Idea: The fallacy of 'ad obscurum per obscurius' is to explain the obscure by appeal to what is more obscure.
	From: B Hale / C Wright (The Metaontology of Abstraction [2009], §3)
	A reaction: Not strictly a fallacy, so much as an example of inadequate explanation, along with circularity and infinite regresses.