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Date: June 14, 2011
"Rationality, by this yardstick (and irrationality too, but we’ll get to that) is nothing more or less than a servant of the hard-wired compulsion to triumph in the debating arena."
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Date: June 14, 2011
"According to this view, bias, lack of logic and other supposed flaws that pollute the stream of reason are instead social adaptations that enable one group to persuade (and defeat) another."
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Date: June 14, 2011
"But they usually assume that the purpose of reasoning is to help an individual arrive at the truth, and that irrationality is a kink in that process, a sort of mental myopia."
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Date: June 14, 2011
"They are a result of the way that the brain, a Rube Goldberg mental contraption, processes memory."
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