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Single Idea 3967

[catalogued under 18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 5. Rationality / a. Rationality]

Full Idea

To imagine a totally irrational animal is to imagine an animal without thought.

Gist of Idea

Absence of all rationality would be absence of thought

Source

Donald Davidson (Davidson on himself [1994], p.232)

Book Reference

'A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind', ed/tr. Guttenplan,Samuel [Blackwell 1995], p.232


A Reaction

This wouldn't be so clear without the theory of evolution, which suggests that only the finders of truth last long enough to breed.