What makes people irrational thinkers?

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I appreciate this venue as a place to work through the issues, but I hope you'll understand that nobody, given real life (I rode in an ambulance yesterday), is going to be able to give these enormous philosophical issues the full time attention required to make any progress.  Chipping away over years and years has helped me understand some things.

Hey Belacqua. Do you mind if we call it a day on our discussion? I mean it's been interesting and I think I have a better feel for your position, so thank you for that, but I'm just starting to get a bit tired/stressed in this thread, so I'd like to start winding down.

But I will say, in response to this bit in your post to LFC... and at the end of your other post to me; I know this now... how big an undertaking learning about Five Ways really is and frankly if I never see the word 'predicate' again in the context of Aristotle it will be too soon It's just so complicated to me and simply will not parse. I know Bertrand Russell has something to say about it, in objection to the Five Ways, but I have not read that yet, and would guess it would be way above my current ability to comprehend. And it also came to me as a surprise when you said in your post to me, that you're not actually that much interested in the Five Ways, so I'm sorry that I misjudged you on that because I had the impression it was your forte and primary interest. Anyway, suffice it to say I think I've learned enough about it to have a good enough gist what it's about, but an expert on it, I will never be.