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Can Irrational people Be Persuaded with Rationality?
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RE: Can Irrational people Be Persuaded with Rationality?
July 7, 2013 at 8:57 am
(July 6, 2013 at 7:10 pm)Koolay Wrote: Is it worth talking rationality to those who are irrational and clearly do not want to think rationally?

I have not met many people who fit that description, and when they do it's generally on one or two topics (politics and religion in particular) where they abandon rationality for dogmatic beliefs.

In any case, it's worth talking rationally to anyone. The alternative would be... ???
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould
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RE: Can Irrational people Be Persuaded with Rationality? - by Tonus - July 7, 2013 at 8:57 am

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