23252 | Socrates first proposed that we are run by mind or reason [Socrates, by Frede,M] |
23307 | Aristotle makes belief a part of reason, but sees desires as separate [Aristotle, by Sorabji] |
72 | Assume our reason is in two parts, one for permanent first principles, and one for variable things [Aristotle] |
23311 | Aristotle sees reason as much more specific than our more everyday concept of it [Aristotle, by Frede,M] |
4017 | Descartes created the modern view of rationality, as an internal feature instead of an external vision [Descartes, by Taylor,C] |
19221 | Everybody overrates their own reasoning, so it is clearly superficial [Peirce] |
2899 | The fanatical rationality of Greek philosophy shows that they were in a state of emergency [Nietzsche] |
22643 | It seems that we feel rational when we detect no irrationality [James] |
9591 | The human intellect has not been, and cannot be, fully formalized [Nagel/Newman] |
23438 | Full rationality must include morality [Foot] |
7611 | Rationality is one part of our conception of human flourishing [Putnam] |
6651 | People are wildly inaccurate in estimating probabilities about an observed event [Lowe] |
6652 | 'Base rate neglect' makes people favour the evidence over its background [Lowe] |
6555 | We are also irrational, with a unique ability to believe in bizarre self-created fictions [Fogelin] |