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In Praise of ‘Rationality’

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   - Oct. 3, 2021

RATIONALITY
What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
By Steven Pinker

“Everything that runs has feet; the river runs; therefore the river has
feet.” For more than half a millennium, starting in the 12th century, young
men in Europe were routinely tortured with such puzzles. Their first
college years were full of logic, mostly derived from Aristotle, who
identified 14 main types of valid deduction and 13 key gambits of
sophistical trickery. Such lessons were thought to do you good. One Oxford
professor wrote in 1700 that they were more useful to a gentleman than
learning to ride, dance or sing.

“Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters,” a new book
by Steven Pinker, the Harvard psychologist, is in large part a primer on
how to reason well. Similar guides for the general reader have been around
for a while. John Locke wrote one over 300 years ago to help treat
“miscarriages” of mortal reason. He conjectured that angels might lack our
natural defects in logic, and thus have no need of books like his. In the
1800s, Jeremy Bentham, a social reformer, produced a guide to the tricks
used in Britain’s Parliament, where the
“give-the-dog-a-bad-name-and-hang-him argument” and the
“eulogizing-lumping-classifier’s device” were supposedly rife. A list of
over 30 less awkwardly named sophisms is in the most popular modern example
of the genre, from the 1930s, “Straight and Crooked Thinking,” by Robert
Thouless, which was reprinted as recently as 2011.

One difference between Pinker’s primer and these older works is that you’ll
find more numbers in his. Probability and statistics now loom large in both
straight and crooked thinking, but logic manuals generally offered only
small bites of such fare. The main courses were usually a parade of
fallacies, explained in words, plus formal deductive logic (which strips
inferences to their skeletons, such as 

Re: [Logica-l] in praise of rationality

[João Pedro de Amorim Paula]

> Impenetrável paywall, infelizmente...

Em geral consigo ultrapassar paywalls desativando JavaScript por completo nos
sites que acesso, prática que utilizo em praticamente todos os sites,
habilitando JavaScript apenas naqueles que realmente necessito usar e só
funcionam com JS (infelizmente...)

Atenciosamente,

-- 
João Pedro de Amorim Paula
IT undergraduate at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)

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Re: [Logica-l] in praise of rationality

[Eduardo Ochs]

Eu consegui acessar pelo archive,md:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/03/books/review/rationality-steven-pinker.html
->
http://archive.md/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/03/books/review/rationality-steven-pinker.html
->
https://archive.md/hs0QO

  [[]], E.

On Sat, 9 Oct 2021 at 11:40, Walter Carnielli  wrote:
>
> Impenetrável paywall, infelizmente...
> Nem o Outline consegue acessar...
>
>
> Em sáb., 9 de out. de 2021 08:07, Joao Marcos  escreveu:
>>
>> uma rescensão do novo livro de Steven Pinker
>> https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/03/books/review/rationality-steven-pinker.html
>>
>>
>> JM
>>
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Re: [Logica-l] in praise of rationality

[Walter Carnielli]

Impenetrável paywall, infelizmente...
Nem o Outline consegue acessar...


Em sáb., 9 de out. de 2021 08:07, Joao Marcos  escreveu:

> uma rescensão do novo livro de Steven Pinker
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/03/books/review/rationality-steven-pinker.html
>
>
> JM
>
> --
> Você recebeu essa mensagem porque está inscrito no grupo "LOGICA-L" dos
> Grupos do Google.
> Para cancelar inscrição nesse grupo e parar de receber e-mails dele, envie
> um e-mail para logica-l+unsubscr...@dimap.ufrn.br.
> Para ver essa discussão na Web, acesse
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> 
> .
>

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