[ExI] Meta question

[William Flynn Wallace]

Given that, we cannot define irrational behavior.  spike


Weight in on this Anders - please?


I think if one cannot define a word one should not use it.  On Match.com,
which I was on a few years ago, I had to pick:  Religious, Spiritual but
not Religious, neither Spiritual nor Religious.  I picked the second one
but cannot to this day say what Spiritual means.  I just did not want to
severely limit my matches.  But I do not use words that if I were asked I
could not define to my satisfaction.  So, for ex., I do not use these
words:  intuition, instinct, spiritual.


(as for your engineers, I would think that 'whatever works' is rational and
whatever doesn't, despite theory, first impression, or expert opinion to
the contrary, is irrational)


bill w

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Dan TheBookMan <danust2012 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This discussion reminds me of Caplan's concept of rational irrationality:
>
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_irrationality
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
>   Sample my Kindle books via:
> http://author.to/DanUst
>
> _______________________________________________
> extropy-chat mailing list
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
> http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/attachments/20160818/63af6bba/attachment.html>