Quote: Bertrand Russell on Rationality

By Alex in Quote-a-Day on Oct 15, 2007 at 12:26 pm

"Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality."

– Bertrand Russell, intellectual and philosopher (1872-1970)

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James
Oct 15th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
And so to be rational, one should not be absolutely certain that Russell’s definition of rationality is correct. Like many of these types of philosophy statements, his definition is self-refuting.

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