From a purely definitional perspective that’s fairly close; but if we’re concerned with signaling, “wisdom” has even more appallingly bad associations than “rational” does. If a friend told me he’d joined a group dedicated to seeking wisdom, I’d at best assume an ashram or something similar, and likewise I’d expect most of the people attracted by the term to lie somewhere along the New Age/NRM spectrum.
From a purely definitional perspective that’s fairly close; but if we’re concerned with signaling, “wisdom” has even more appallingly bad associations than “rational” does. If a friend told me he’d joined a group dedicated to seeking wisdom, I’d at best assume an ashram or something similar, and likewise I’d expect most of the people attracted by the term to lie somewhere along the New Age/NRM spectrum.
I suppose you’re right. It turns us from apparent Rand-loving Spocks to Hippie New Agers in the eyes of the public.
Wait, so what would happen if we said “rationality and wisdom” or even “rationality slash wisdom”?
Either they even each-other out, or people think we’re crazy and self-contradictory?
Sounds worth trying!