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Ideas for 'works', 'The Nature of Rationality' and 'Vagaries of Definition'

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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / a. Nature of emotions

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Freud said passions are pressures of some flowing hydraulic quantity [Freud, by Solomon]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 5. Rationality / a. Rationality

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In the instrumental view of rationality it only concerns means, and not ends [Nozick]

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Is it rational to believe a truth which leads to permanent misery? [Nozick]

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Rationality needs some self-consciousness, to also evaluate how we acquired our reasons [Nozick]

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Rationality is normally said to concern either giving reasons, or reliability [Nozick]