Prior to LessWrong, I always remembered rational as meaning “free of logical fallacy”. A perfectly rational person was someone who, when given a group of premises, would always derive every logically valid conclusion possible from that set, and never derive a logically invalid one.
Prior to LessWrong, I always remembered rational as meaning “free of logical fallacy”. A perfectly rational person was someone who, when given a group of premises, would always derive every logically valid conclusion possible from that set, and never derive a logically invalid one.