if the central claim of rationality is that there are a small number of generic techniques that can make you better at a wide range of things, then the basketball analogy is misleading because its a specific skill. The central claim of rationality was that there is such a small number of generic techniques, ie. remove biases and use Bayes. Bayes (Bayes!, Bayes!) was considered the Fosbury Flop for everything. But that seems not to have worked , and to have been quietly dropped. All the defences of rationalism in this article implicitly use a toolbox approach, although law thinking is explicitly recommended.
if the central claim of rationality is that there are a small number of generic techniques that can make you better at a wide range of things, then the basketball analogy is misleading because its a specific skill. The central claim of rationality was that there is such a small number of generic techniques, ie. remove biases and use Bayes. Bayes (Bayes!, Bayes!) was considered the Fosbury Flop for everything. But that seems not to have worked , and to have been quietly dropped. All the defences of rationalism in this article implicitly use a toolbox approach, although law thinking is explicitly recommended.