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Thoughtlets. LXXVII.
For all the handwringing these days about how easily people are influenced by internet celebrities, pseudo-intellectuals, and political opiners – rest assured (or be disturbed) that t’ was ever thus … both the handwringing and the corresponding susceptibility to “influencers.” Mind you, handwringing can also be a rhetorical gesture. “Amidst all this bustle ’tis not… 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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