Reason Not The Only Source of Knowledge

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Ayn Rand claims that "[t]he virtue of Rationality means the recognition and acceptance of reason as one's only source of knowledge [...]." This is wrong, mainly because reason can only be used as a method of choosing between knowledge/ideas, not as a source of knowledge.

#1650 · · Zelalem MekonnenOP revised about 1 month ago · context · 4th of 4 versions

What do you think is the source of knowledge if not reason?

#1618 · · Dennis Hackethal, about 1 month ago

The source of knowledge is myths. Reason criticizes them and we get myths that are testable (if knowledge about the physical world), hard to vary and make some assertion about reality. Popper highlighted the myth and testable nature of scientific knowledge, and Deutsch highlights hard to vary and explanation/assertion nature of knowledge.

#1633 · · Zelalem MekonnenOP, about 1 month ago · Criticized1 criticim(s)

Criticism is a form of knowledge. How does reason have access to criticism if reason is not the source of knowledge?

#1646 · · Dennis Hackethal, about 1 month ago · Criticism of #1633

Religion is a form of knowledge, but it is not reasonable. It holds some truths, but it is not reasonable. Knowledge can come from myths, which are not reason.

#1734 · · Zelalem MekonnenOP revised 6 days ago · 2nd of 2 versions · Criticized1 criticim(s)

This is largely a duplicate of #1633. You’d want to avoid repeating ideas.

#1655 · · Dennis Hackethal, 26 days ago · Criticism of #1734
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This misses the point of the post before it. Knowledge starts as myths and contains myths. Reason makes it hard to vary, thus reasonable to take as true until the myths in that theory itself are corrected.

#1726 · · Zelalem MekonnenOP, 8 days ago · Criticized2 criticim(s)

I pointed out a circularity in #1655. Instead of resolving the circularity, you posted another idea repeating the same circularity. That makes no sense.

Even if I was somehow mistaken about there being a circularity, repeating the same idea doesn’t correct that.

Please read the discussion ‘How Does Veritula Work?’ in its entirety before continuing here.

#1727 · · Dennis Hackethal, 6 days ago · Criticism of #1726
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This should be marked a criticism.

#1728 · · Dennis Hackethal, 6 days ago · Criticism of #1726
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