For you didn't intend to say "a normative reason' and accidentally left off the 'a'. No, you didn't have a clue what you meant to say and so just stuck some words together. You didn't leave off the a. You had no idea it needed to be there for the sentence to make any sense at all. Correct? — Bartricks
doesn't.If normative reason is — introbert
When I say 'a' normative reason is rational I mean having a normative reason. — introbert
The only thing I will give you credit for in this thread is that your rigid inability to render meaning from anything that slightly defies cultural prescriptivism is coherent with your mostly incoherent argument for normative reason. — introbert
I am disagreeing with your normative reason for acting which correspondingly is an argument about rationality that conforms to your culture's (I assume British) long standing belief. — introbert
that conforms to your culture's (I assume British) long standing belief — introbert
I referred earlier to Galileo as an example of rationality that defies normative reason. — introbert
That you are acting so ignorantly and irrationally in the face of argument against your culturally prescribed codes is further indictment of not only your argument but your society's beliefs. — introbert
you can't disagree with a normative reason — Bartricks
Culture's don't have beliefs — Bartricks
Galileo was a person, not an example of rationality. A person may exhibit rationality. But a person cannot 'be' rationality. — Bartricks
Yes, I can disagree with a normative reason when it refers to a culturally influenced argument which is a belief about rationality. — introbert
Yes cultures do have beliefs — introbert
If the matrix will give you all that you want and could ever want, without ever being aware that it is fabricated, would you chose the red pill?
All you are striving for in life is achieved in the matrix in the appropriate way and you'll die thinking that it was all real.
Would you still chose to escape it?
If yes, would you say that is the rational choice? — TheMadMan
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