Posted: Jul 28, 2011 11:36 pm
Jef wrote:DrWho wrote:If one does not have faith that reason is useful, then what is the justification for using it?
No one can prove that reason is useful.
Thus I agrue that faith in the utility of reason is a necessary condition for being rational.
Which might be a reasonable argument, had you not already excluded reason from your epistemological toolkit.
Any purportedly rational argument against reason is incoherent. It is so meaningless it is not even wrong, because it excludes, for itself, the possibility of being shown to be correct.
How did I exclude reason?