Rationality and refrigerators | Meta-rationality

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This book offers more sophisticated understanding of truth than both rationalist absolutism and postmodernist relativism.

A: Is there any water in the refrigerator? B: Yes. A: Where? I don’t see it. B: In the cells of the eggplant.1 Was “there is water in the refrigerator” true? We can use systematic rationality more effectively—in science, engineering, management, and policy—by investigating this question, and the problems and opportunities that exploration reveals. What do “truth” and “belief” mean? That sounds like a typical ivory-tower philosophical puzzle. Most such questions can’t be answered, and “correct” answers, if they existed, wouldn’t make any practical difference. However, wrong ideas about…

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