I’m generally sympathetic to the postrationalists on several points, but I agree with this. Coming up with the whole postrationality label was a bad idea in the first place, as it tends to serve tribal purposes and distracts people from the ways in which postrationality is just a straightforward extension of standard rationality.
(Ironically, one could argue that I already fit the criteria of “postrationalist”, making it slightly weird for me to say that I’m sympathetic to the postrationalists, rather than being one of them. But to some extent I don’t want to identify as post-rat, exactly because I don’t think that post-rat is a good term and that good rat is already post-rat.)
There are definitely rationalist positions that have unexamined potential in the pr direction, where a good excuse is, “I haven’t looked yet”. (and a bad excuse might be, “that’s dumb I don’t want to look there”). In that sense there is rationality that is not yet at Post-rational investigations.
I had to have some sense and experience of investigating and knowing the world before I turned that machine on itself and started to explore the inner workings of the investigation mechanism.
I’m generally sympathetic to the postrationalists on several points, but I agree with this. Coming up with the whole postrationality label was a bad idea in the first place, as it tends to serve tribal purposes and distracts people from the ways in which postrationality is just a straightforward extension of standard rationality.
(Ironically, one could argue that I already fit the criteria of “postrationalist”, making it slightly weird for me to say that I’m sympathetic to the postrationalists, rather than being one of them. But to some extent I don’t want to identify as post-rat, exactly because I don’t think that post-rat is a good term and that good rat is already post-rat.)
There are definitely rationalist positions that have unexamined potential in the pr direction, where a good excuse is, “I haven’t looked yet”. (and a bad excuse might be, “that’s dumb I don’t want to look there”). In that sense there is rationality that is not yet at Post-rational investigations.
I had to have some sense and experience of investigating and knowing the world before I turned that machine on itself and started to explore the inner workings of the investigation mechanism.