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Is rationalism a humanism?

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Is rationalism a humanism?
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#21
RE: Is rationalism a humanism?
August 15, 2023 at 8:09 pm
You may think that you know the truth but that doesn't mean you're right.
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#22
RE: Is rationalism a humanism?
August 15, 2023 at 8:15 pm
Mayonnaise may come in a jar, but that doesn't mean you'll ever catch up.
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RE: Is rationalism a humanism?
August 15, 2023 at 8:22 pm
(August 15, 2023 at 8:09 pm)MarcusA Wrote: You may think that you know the truth but that doesn't mean you're right.

Why should I believe something as unreasonable as that?

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‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: Is rationalism a humanism?
August 15, 2023 at 8:32 pm
(August 15, 2023 at 8:09 pm)MarcusA Wrote: You may think that you know the truth but that doesn't mean you're right.

There are ways to be less likely to be wrong, and if wrong, likely to be less wrong.     yours isn’t it.
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#25
RE: Is rationalism a humanism?
August 15, 2023 at 8:38 pm
Everything in science is conditional.
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RE: Is rationalism a humanism?
August 15, 2023 at 8:44 pm
(August 15, 2023 at 8:38 pm)MarcusA Wrote: Everything in science is conditional.

Everything is conditional, your point?
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#27
RE: Is rationalism a humanism?
August 15, 2023 at 8:47 pm
Objectivity doesn't exist.
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RE: Is rationalism a humanism?
August 15, 2023 at 8:54 pm
(August 15, 2023 at 11:55 am)MarcusA Wrote:
(August 15, 2023 at 9:56 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: OP clearly doesn't know what rationalism is. Hardly qualifies him to comment on it.

Plato is boring. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Not an answer. Rewrite and resubmit for a grade.

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RE: Is rationalism a humanism?
August 15, 2023 at 8:55 pm
(August 15, 2023 at 6:28 pm)MarcusA Wrote: You can stick reason on a high altar if you wish but I will stick with my own personal knowledge.

*golf clap*

Sounds like a dipshit troll to me.

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RE: Is rationalism a humanism?
August 15, 2023 at 8:57 pm
(August 15, 2023 at 8:47 pm)MarcusA Wrote: Objectivity doesn't exist.

So the skidmarks in your underwear, that's a you thing.

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