X-Message-Number: 10282 Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 09:32:28 -0700 From: Rand Simberg <> Subject: Virtual of rationality Timur Rozenfeld says that: >Values don't need to be rational, but if you value your life >and wish to enhance it, it is in your interest that they be >rational. Not necessarily. That depends on what constitutes "enhancing" your life. Again, this is a subjective judgement, not an objective one. >As for rationality being an axiom, I don't think so. If it isn't, then it can only be derived from something else that is. The world rests on the back of a turtle, but there's turtles all the way down <g>. At some point, you have to make an unprovable assumption. >The virtue of rationality can clearly be shown to enhance your >life, Not at all, until you've defined "enhance" clearly, and this (like any other word) cannot be done nonaxiomatically. You gotta have faith in somethin'... ************************************************************************ * 310 372-7963 (CA) 307 739-1296 (Jackson Hole) interglobal space lines * 307 733-1391 (Fax) http://www.interglobal.org "Extraordinary launch vehicles require extraordinary markets..." Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=10282