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Q. About Rationality and Nature
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RE: Q. About Rationality and Nature
(August 13, 2014 at 4:59 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Nature is neither rational or irrational, just as tacos are neither cosmopolitan nor hungry.

So I'm thinking "c", arational. The concept of rationality doesn't apply to that which simply is.

I think intelligent beings derive their reason from the attempts over the eons to perceive and predict nature accurately. Selection, being a difficult taskmaster, mercilessly winnows those whose minds don't comport with reality.

So then, nothing can really be said about nature as it is in itself, but only as our minds represent to us, representations which aren't derived by anything at bottom that can be called rational?
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
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Q. About Rationality and Nature - by Mudhammam - August 13, 2014 at 4:19 pm
RE: Q. About Rationality and Nature - by Thumpalumpacus - August 13, 2014 at 4:59 pm
RE: Q. About Rationality and Nature - by Mudhammam - August 13, 2014 at 5:22 pm
RE: Q. About Rationality and Nature - by Thumpalumpacus - August 13, 2014 at 5:48 pm
RE: Q. About Rationality and Nature - by LostLocke - August 13, 2014 at 6:52 pm
RE: Q. About Rationality and Nature - by jughead - August 13, 2014 at 8:01 pm
RE: Q. About Rationality and Nature - by Mudhammam - August 14, 2014 at 4:21 am
RE: Q. About Rationality and Nature - by Whateverist - August 14, 2014 at 12:15 pm
RE: Q. About Rationality and Nature - by Mudhammam - August 14, 2014 at 1:41 pm
RE: Q. About Rationality and Nature - by Thumpalumpacus - August 14, 2014 at 2:12 pm
RE: Q. About Rationality and Nature - by Whateverist - August 14, 2014 at 2:34 pm
RE: Q. About Rationality and Nature - by Mudhammam - August 15, 2014 at 5:48 pm
RE: Q. About Rationality and Nature - by Mudhammam - August 15, 2014 at 6:40 pm
RE: Q. About Rationality and Nature - by Thumpalumpacus - August 14, 2014 at 9:54 am
RE: Q. About Rationality and Nature - by Whateverist - August 15, 2014 at 5:50 pm
RE: Q. About Rationality and Nature - by XK9_Knight - August 17, 2014 at 1:47 pm
RE: Q. About Rationality and Nature - by The Grand Nudger - August 17, 2014 at 2:34 pm
RE: Q. About Rationality and Nature - by Whateverist - August 17, 2014 at 11:31 pm
RE: Q. About Rationality and Nature - by Confused Ape - August 17, 2014 at 4:22 pm
RE: Q. About Rationality and Nature - by bennyboy - August 17, 2014 at 11:57 pm
RE: Q. About Rationality and Nature - by Mudhammam - August 18, 2014 at 1:24 am
RE: Q. About Rationality and Nature - by Thumpalumpacus - August 18, 2014 at 8:15 am

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