
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
Cato Podcast
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The Reality Zone
People do are committed to evidence, proveability truth when it comes to what i call the reality zone. People largely treat these beliefs as attestable and hold them to the extent that they think they are true. On the other hand, there is a whole universe of beliefs that are very different - far away peoples and places, mote corridors of power,. The microscopic, the cosmic, the counterfactual, the metaphysical. Whether they're true or false is, at least for most of our history as a species, unknowable. You can't find out, so therefore irrelevant. You can you believe, ever it is entertaining or comfortable to believe.
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