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Reflective Mind in Type 1?

15 2021-09-27 07:46

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Since all people have limited and subjective human perspectives, it's reasonable to suspect flaws within everybody's rationality.

I disagree that it is reasonable. In fact, that's my issue. People that suspect that the reason others disagree with them is because they don't think rationally, or not rationally enough. But it is my opinion that this is the wrong approach, precisely because of what you have said. If rationality is the ability to think through your situation, and your situation is to have a limited and subjective perspective, then it makes much more sense to assume that the issue is not of rationality, but perspective. While discussing Napoleon's campaign of 1815, Clausewitz makes the following remark, which I think is highly relevant:

In analyzing strategy the main thing is always to put yourself precisely into the position of the individual who had to take action. This is often very difficult to do, of course. The vast majority of strategic criticisms would either disappear completely or be reduced to minor, theoretical differences if writers would want or be able to analyze all situations in such a manner.

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