Hear Reason, or she’ll make you feel her.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1744 ed.)
More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/15…
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"Better a known rival than an unpredictable friend." - Futurist Jim Carroll
There's a lot of talk online about what happens when partnerships become unstable.
When one side of a partnership slides over the abyss of rationality, into a mindset of madness.
When what was once reliable becomes volatile, when the predictable becomes uncertain, and the rational, irrational.
And the lesson is that you have to pick your partners carefully.
Strategically.
Wisely.
With caution.
With due diligence.
With both eyes wide open and elbows up.
You'll never move forward if you keep trying to rely on a relationship that has become untenable.
Partnership involves predictable, rational action.
And when that disappears, so should the reliance on the partnership - because it becomes time to form new ones.
Those partnerships might involve choices that, in an old world, might not have made sense but, in a new world, demand attention.
That's simply reality!
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Futurist Jim Carroll often speaks about the importance of organizations to develop the capability for 'fast partnerships.' He realizes it now applies to nations, too.
**#Partnership** **#Strategy** **#Alliances** **#Trust** **#Reliability** **#Choices** **#Change** **#Wisdom** **#Caution** **#Reality** **#Relationships** **#Stability** **#Leadership** **#Adaptation** **#NewWorld** **#DueDiligence** **#Rationality** **#Forward** **#Decisions** **#Resilience** **#Unpredictable** **#Strategic** **#Eyes** **#Elbows** **#Onwards**
Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/01/daily-inspiration-better-a-known-rival-than-an-unpredictable-friend/
The decisions you can't explain are often the ones you got right.
Pattern recognition vs. protocol compliance: why your most sophisticated computational resource is the one you've been trained to override.
🔗 https://kairos-prometheon.com/en/blog/2026-01-25-pattern-recognition/
#PatternRecognition #Intuition #DecisionMaking #Rationality #Sovereignty #Philosophy
Without #self-enquiry, rationalism turns outward-only.
It scrutinizes #religion, #superstition, #tradition, #politics, and the #belief s of others, but it never pauses to examine the #psychological centre doing the scrutinizing. The #ego remains #untouched, and #rationality becomes its #armour
#acharyaprashant
Reality Happens Once. Facts Happen Many Times. After writing about 'The Trouble with Facts' yesterday, I realised that the polysemy of 'facts' introduces category errors. Not all facts are created equal.
👉 https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/23/reality-happens-once-facts-happen-many-times/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #language #ontology #epistemology #facts #objectivity #cognition #perception #memory #law #evidence #polysemy #truth #podcast #blog #reasoning #rationality #causation
Tina Brown has this explanation for Trump's aggressive views about #Greenland: "Trump derangement syndrome has gone global, except the derangement is his."
#TDS #politics #rationality
I critique top moral psychology and adjacent books. These books do an excellent job of explaining that humans are inherently irrational…
👉 https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/21/moral-psychology-critique/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
…then they dispense the advice: Be rational. 🧐
For those in the know, this is the fundamental problem with psychology, economics, politics, and a host of other disciplines that presume rationality.
#philosophy #philosophy #rationality #morality #conflict #politics #elephants #reason #Enlightenment #blog #podcast #essay #video #books
One Sentence at a Time: A Quantitative #History of Rationality in Economic Thought https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:38na2_v1&r=&r=big
"… Combining large language model–based semantic analysis with bibliometric and network methods, we identify and cluster discussions of #rationality across time and scales, such as the circulation of #boundedRationality and the emergence of #behavioralEconomics."
#llm #het #EconomicThought
I discuss A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis, Chapter 1: A Genealogy of Insufficiency – From Ancient Greece through the 20th Century.
👉 https://youtu.be/A-yoDtJ_ICE
#philosophy #language #video #youtube #genealogy #hypothesis #foucault #semantics #pragmatics #communication #power #ideology #structure #plato #aristotle #Wittgenstein #shadows #augustine #Locke #Liebnitz #Nietzsche #Gödel #Saussure #barthes #shannon #cognition #cognitivescience #rationality
🐦 Are #birds conscious beings? – A surprisingly clear answer 😉
As Prof. Dr. #WolfSinger emphasizes in our #Zoomposium, there are good reasons to attribute #consciousness, #rationality, and #autonomy to birds.
📺 #Interview: https://youtu.be/C2FVIbAyaH4
📎 #Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/03/22/kann-das-gehirn-das-gehirn-verstehen/
#Consciousness #AnimalConsciousness #Neuroscience #PhilosophyOfMind #WolfSinger
#Cognition #Self-Organization #HardProblemOfConsciousness #Evolution #Zoomposium
25 years into the century and we’re still ruled by "social biases." We are social by design, but that same drive often leads to our most irrational choices. It’s time we started discussing the invisible forces that shape our behavior. 🧠
#SocialCreatures #MentalModels #Psychology #Rationality #Sociology
»This gendered dichotomy—reason as male, emotion or irrationality as female—is shown to permeate philosophical traditions, even in instances where philosophers did not explicitly intend to make gendered distinctions.«
Bailouts Aren’t Socialism: Keynes, Schumacher, and the Confusion We Live In
#Murdockinations #blog #economics #ecology #rationality
https://jzmurdock.blogspot.com/2025/12/bailouts-arent-socialism-keynes.html
Satisfaction Claim:
One satisfies a requirement by avoiding or escaping instrumental incoherence (of a kind which one would not satisfy by entering or remaining in instrumental incoherence) no matter how one does it.
#rationality vs #efficiency
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rationality-instrumental/
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A quotation from Henry Commager
When a people are confronted with problems that are both incomprehensible and unbearable, they lash out not at those who contrived the problems but at those who expose them. When they are confronted by moral problems that they find insoluble, or perhaps intolerable, they blame the moralists. The anxieties, tensions, revulsions of our day create an atmosphere in which it is almost impossible to think clearly and dispassionately about just those problems which most imperatively require reason and objectivity — problems of adjustment to fundamental change.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Speech (1971-04-10), “The University and the Community of Learning,” Kent State University, Ohio
More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
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10 Laughable #Hadith That Make No Sense
#GodlessAndGrounded #AtheistVoice #RationalityMatters
From flying donkeys to cosmic bedsheets, some hadith sound less like #divine wisdom and more like #ancient fan fiction. In this video, we break down 10 laughable hadith that defy #logic, reason, and basic common sense—and expose how blind belief turns absurdity into “ #faith.” Brace yourself. #Rationality is about to collide with #mythology.
“My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.” — Poul Anderson, Homeward and Beyond
#BOTD #PoulAnderson #QOTD #HumanPsyche #Quotation #Rationality #Quote
https://yahooeysblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/quote-of-the-day-5350/
The Wisdom of Crowds Debated - Peter Thiel and Jordan Peterson
New post on Philosophics.blog — Pure Reason: The Architecture of Illusion
Kant’s dream: a universe made of logic, untouched by experience.
For three turns, evidence is suspended; only deduction remains.
The Enlightenment’s most beautiful labyrinth.
https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/09/pure-reason-the-architecture-of-illusion/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mtg
#Philosophy #Kant #Enlightenment #CriticalTheory #Postmodernism #PureReason #Philosophics #mtg #Parody #reason #rationality #enlightenment #tcg #logic #experience
