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Thoughtlets. LXVIII. We all do it. As sure as we breathe.
Just try to go a day without taking a pot-shot at another or some others’ rationality, particularly if you drive, gossip, watch the news, read opinion columns, attend meetings, surf the internet, or deal with bureaucracy. Continue reading
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Thoughtlets. LXVII. When the term “motivated reasoning” is deployed in rhetoric …
Another candidate for the Department of Idiotic Redundancies is the term “motivated reasoning”. Assuming one wants to overcome motivated reasoning, in so-doing she is processing information to arrive at conclusions that suit her own needs and goals; i.e. her goals to overcome motivated reasoning. What non-motivated reasoning means I can’t imagine. Cf David Hume: “Reason Continue reading
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Saturday Morning Pam-toons. In Matters of Love and War — And All Matters In Between — There is No Dearth of Armchair Psychiatrists
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