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Is sanity rational?
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RE: Is sanity rational?
September 26, 2014 at 7:00 am (This post was last modified: September 26, 2014 at 7:05 am by Michael B.)
I take a pragmatic view on this: that sanity is the ability to function reasonably in the world.

So people who looked at the sun and stars and thought they orbited the Earth were sane, yet they weren't really seeing things as they are. Indeed they were wildly inaccurate (and who knows how many of our beliefs about reality today are in error).
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Is sanity rational?

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Is sanity rational? - by bennyboy - September 25, 2014 at 9:24 pm
RE: Is sanity rational? - by Surgenator - September 25, 2014 at 10:56 pm
RE: Is sanity rational? - by Jenny A - September 26, 2014 at 12:15 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by Exian - September 26, 2014 at 12:44 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by bennyboy - September 26, 2014 at 8:32 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by Exian - October 3, 2014 at 2:06 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by Alex K - September 26, 2014 at 3:29 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by Aoi Magi - September 26, 2014 at 4:19 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by Exian - September 26, 2014 at 4:22 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by genkaus - September 26, 2014 at 6:13 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by Michael B - September 26, 2014 at 8:07 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by genkaus - September 26, 2014 at 8:49 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by Michael B - September 26, 2014 at 7:00 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by mralstoner - October 3, 2014 at 12:51 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by psychoslice - October 3, 2014 at 2:20 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by Mudhammam - October 3, 2014 at 3:16 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by bennyboy - October 3, 2014 at 7:31 pm
RE: Is sanity rational? - by Mudhammam - October 3, 2014 at 8:04 pm
RE: Is sanity rational? - by bennyboy - October 4, 2014 at 1:57 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by Mudhammam - October 4, 2014 at 11:24 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by Well Rounded Rectangle - October 4, 2014 at 12:34 pm
RE: Is sanity rational? - by *Deidre* - October 3, 2014 at 3:18 pm
RE: Is sanity rational? - by genkaus - October 3, 2014 at 6:02 pm
RE: Is sanity rational? - by Exian - October 3, 2014 at 6:04 pm
RE: Is sanity rational? - by genkaus - October 4, 2014 at 4:14 pm
RE: Is sanity rational? - by *Deidre* - October 3, 2014 at 11:47 pm
RE: Is sanity rational? - by KUSA - October 3, 2014 at 8:48 pm
RE: Is sanity rational? - by Zidneya - October 3, 2014 at 11:42 pm
Re: RE: Is sanity rational? - by KUSA - October 4, 2014 at 2:03 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by bennyboy - October 4, 2014 at 11:02 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by Tartarus Sauce - October 4, 2014 at 10:13 pm
RE: Is sanity rational? - by bennyboy - October 5, 2014 at 1:41 am
RE: Is sanity rational? - by Whateverist - October 5, 2014 at 1:51 am

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