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[filed under theme 18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 5. Rationality / a. Rationality
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Full Idea
Mentalism isn't gratuitous; you need it to explain rationality. Mental causation buys you behaviours that are unlike reflexes in at least three ways: they're autonomous, they're productive, and they're experimental.
Gist of Idea
Rationality has mental properties - autonomy, productivity, experiment
Source
Jerry A. Fodor (The Elm and the Expert [1993], §4)
Book Ref
Fodor,Jerry A.: 'The Elm and the Expert' [MIT 1995], p.89
A Reaction
He makes his three ways sound all-or-nothing, which is (I believe) the single biggest danger when thinking about the mind. "Either you are conscious, or you are not..."
The
28 ideas
with the same theme
[general capacity for reason and logic]:
4326
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Aristotle gives a superior account of rationality, because he allows emotions to participate
[Hursthouse on Aristotle]
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23265
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The rational part of the soul is the desire for truth, understanding and recollection
[Galen]
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7650
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All thought is feeling, and rationality is the sensitive soul contemplating reasoning
[La Mettrie]
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8687
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Kantian 'intuition' is the bridge between pure reason and its application to sense experiences
[Kant, by Friend]
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19451
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When absorbed in deep reflection, is your reason in control, or is it you?
[Feuerbach]
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19248
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Reasoning involves observation, experiment, and habituation
[Peirce]
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24081
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Most of our intellectual activity is unconscious
[Nietzsche]
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7171
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Rationality is a scheme we cannot cast away
[Nietzsche]
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22650
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How can the ground of rationality be itself rational?
[James]
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5369
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It is rational to believe in reality, despite the lack of demonstrative reasons for it
[Russell]
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3967
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Absence of all rationality would be absence of thought
[Davidson]
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6951
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Ordinary rationality is conservative, starting from where your beliefs currently are
[Harman]
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22662
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In the instrumental view of rationality it only concerns means, and not ends
[Nozick]
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22663
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Rationality is normally said to concern either giving reasons, or reliability
[Nozick]
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22666
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Is it rational to believe a truth which leads to permanent misery?
[Nozick]
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22667
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Rationality needs some self-consciousness, to also evaluate how we acquired our reasons
[Nozick]
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2450
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Rationality has mental properties - autonomy, productivity, experiment
[Fodor]
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Only rational beings are attentive without motive or concern
[Scruton]
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23743
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Capturing all the common sense facts about rationality is almost impossible
[Smith,M]
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4765
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Stich accepts eliminativism (labelled 'pragmatism') about rationality and normativity
[Stich, by Engel]
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4629
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Consistency is the cornerstone of rationality
[Baggini /Fosl]
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11047
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Hegelian holistic rationality is the capacity to seek coherence
[Hanna]
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11048
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Humean Instrumental rationality is the capacity to seek contingent truths
[Hanna]
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11046
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Kantian principled rationality is recognition of a priori universal truths
[Hanna]
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11067
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Rational animals have a normative concept of necessity
[Hanna]
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11068
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One tradition says talking is the essence of rationality; the other says the essence is logic
[Hanna]
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20990
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Rationality is conformity to reasons that can be sustained even after scrutiny
[Sen]
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No one has yet devised a rationality test
[New Sci.]
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