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   pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 13:08:40 JST pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:

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   @amerika @ins0mniak @11112011 @FreedoingVlad @Grandtheftautism @Senator_Armstrong @animeirl @dicey @eisai @icedquinn
   
   > I am skeptical of "reason," as humans call it,
   
   Are you familiar with the concept of "Scientism"? This is to treat reason as the ultimate arbiter of truth and value; apparently Heinlein wrote some screeds against it. It could be seen as "totalitarian rationalism". You can reduce the concept of, say, "love" to "some chemical reactions in the brain", but you can also reduce the concept of "reason" to chemical reactions in the brain.
   
   In general, I'm with you on that: the idea behind reason is that we can use it to delineate things that we are certain of, but a thing can be true independent of our ability to prove its certainty.
   
   Kant described it as "the faculty of reason in general, in respect of all knowledge after which it may strive independently of all experience", but William Blake was a little harsher.
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