It doesn’t really have the form of a “rationality quote”. It’s too long to be quotable, not directly bearing on rationality, and doesn’t give rationality-warm-fuzzies like “that which can be destroyed by the truth should be”.
It doesn’t really have the form of a “rationality quote”. It’s too long to be quotable, not directly bearing on rationality, and doesn’t give rationality-warm-fuzzies like “that which can be destroyed by the truth should be”.
I think it is hard to dispute that several such statements have been upvoted in recent rationality quote threads.
Well, I downvoted it because it essentially replaces one ungrounded assumption (or rather, the answer to a wrong question,) with another ungrounded assumption. It’s an exercise in rationalization, not rationality.
Is this down voted because it has the word “God” in it?
It doesn’t really have the form of a “rationality quote”. It’s too long to be quotable, not directly bearing on rationality, and doesn’t give rationality-warm-fuzzies like “that which can be destroyed by the truth should be”.
That said, probably yes.
I think it is hard to dispute that several such statements have been upvoted in recent rationality quote threads.
Well, I downvoted it because it essentially replaces one ungrounded assumption (or rather, the answer to a wrong question,) with another ungrounded assumption. It’s an exercise in rationalization, not rationality.