Kevin's Bacon on Nostr: I feel like there are 2 very very different breeds of rationalism out there. Or maybe ...

I feel like there are 2 very very different breeds of rationalism out there. Or maybe it's a sliding scale. There are those who are confident in their assertions because they went from pure doubt or basic axioms that are guaranteed to be true within a framework to where they are now in a valid manner, and there are those who made a mistake and still think they're certainly correct, and are unopen to reconsidering it. I'm reading a book by Thomas Sowell, Knowledge and Decisions, and he points out a very good point that applies to the latter about "Rationalists." He describes them as having all their confidence put into all the things which their intellect can articulate. That's very different from my kind of Rationalism. Makes me question whag I can call myself so people understand my stance on epistemology and process metaphysics. Daoist yes. Rationalist seems to not be specific enough, and Daoist doesn't emphasize my particular flavor of it enough. Hmm...