Ok I`ll try on the bits I disagree with since a lot I do agree with.
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Rationality is also based on certain situations, such as in the event of a movie, where we frequently practice a willing suspense of disbelief. We accept supernatural events as being in the realm of a fictional world and utilize a far different form of rationality than we do in the "real" world. Finally, there is relativism of logic, in which laws of logic are completely thrown out the window. For the relativist, they a social construct established solely out of our need for logic in the world. Relativism of logic is one of the most extreme forms of relativism.
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Oh please.Discounting logic (as people do in suspending disbelief) and (possably)objective reality is merely an excuse for complete devaluation of any and all scientific facts.
Just because the mind itself can not act or judge without a complete lack of emotion or be dependant on a persons perecption it does not mean there cant be a single real reality out there.
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Going back to the enlightenment and the scientific revolution, the western world came to believe that scientific experimentation is the ultimate source in achieving a world of complete rationality. Kuhn turns this belief upside down by arguing that new theories are sometimes the result of the disregarding of old beliefs that no longer work
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Yes new theories, new ideas or perceptions made up of observation and some study.When science can reach the point where emperical evidence is consistant in experimentations enough times to remove all doubt it will be more like the world of completle ratioanlity.It takes more than a whim to discount evidence.
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so.
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