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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.
Clarification
'Causality' is the process by which things actually happen, rather than statically existing
Gist of Idea
Psychology studies the way rationality links desires and beliefs to causality
Source
Gabriel M.A. Segal (A Slim Book about Narrow Content [2000], 5.3)
Book Ref
Segal,Gabriel M.A.: 'A Slim Book about Narrow Content' [MIT 2000], p.150
| 23344 | Reason itself must be compounded from some of our impressions [Epictetus] |
| 23247 | The need to act produces consciousness, and practical reason is the root of all reason [Fichte] |
| 22035 | The structure of reason is a social and historical achievement [Hegel, by Pinkard] |
| 3812 | Rationality is the way we coordinate our intentionality [Searle] |
| 3806 | Rationality is built into the intentionality of the mind, and its means of expression [Searle] |
| 2505 | Turing invented the idea of mechanical rationality (just based on syntax) [Fodor] |
| 2463 | A standard naturalist view is realist, externalist, and computationalist, and believes in rationality [Fodor] |
| 1584 | Modern science, by aiming for clarity about the external world, has abandoned rationality in the human world [Roochnik] |
| 3125 | Psychology studies the way rationality links desires and beliefs to causality [Segal] |