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A stream of experimental results has put in doubt the traditional conception of man as the rational animal. The mistakes people make are said to be more than just occasional and superficial. They are said to be systematic, and as deep as misapplying modus ponens in propositional logic and the conjunction rule in probability theory.1
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For an informative presentation and discussion of these results, see Edward Stein’s Without Good Reason (Oxford: Oxford University Press (1996)).
Cf. what Stein calls “the standard view” of rationality.
Stein, op. cit.
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Sosa, E. (1999). Are Humans Rational?. In: Korta, K., Sosa, E., Arrazola, X. (eds) Cognition, Agency and Rationality. Philosophical Studies Series, vol 79. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1070-1_1
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