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Ideas for Lynch,MP/Glasgow,JM, Sydney Shoemaker and Edwin D. Mares

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason
People have had good reasons for thinking that the circle has been squared [Shoemaker]
     Full Idea: People have had good reasons for thinking that the circle has been squared.
     From: Sydney Shoemaker (Time Without Change [1969], p.54)
     A reaction: A lovely concise illustration of the limits of reason. We might distinguish 'rational to us' from 'rational in itself', with only what is true or real aspiring to the latter status. But the latter might be unknowable by us.
Inconsistency doesn't prevent us reasoning about some system [Mares]
     Full Idea: We are able to reason about inconsistent beliefs, stories, and theories in useful and important ways
     From: Edwin D. Mares (Negation [2014], 1)