{"id":2139,"date":"2011-07-20T00:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/?p=2139"},"modified":"2011-07-20T00:00:05","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:00:05","slug":"reason-seen-more-as-weapon-than-path-to-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/?p=2139","title":{"rendered":"Reason Seen More as Weapon Than Path to Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/15\/arts\/people-argue-just-to-win-scholars-assert.html?_r=1&amp;hp'>Reason Seen More as Weapon Than Path to Truth<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mildlyannoyedrabbit.tumblr.com\/post\/7793677399\" target=\"_blank\">mildlyannoyedrabbit<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>For centuries thinkers have assumed that the uniquely human capacity for reasoning has existed to let people reach beyond mere perception and reflex in the search for truth. Rationality allowed a solitary thinker to blaze a path to philosophical, moral and scientific enlightenment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Now some researchers are suggesting that reason evolved for a completely different purpose: to win arguments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fascinating in so many ways.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reason Seen More as Weapon Than Path to Truth mildlyannoyedrabbit: For centuries thinkers have assumed that the uniquely human capacity for reasoning has existed to let people reach beyond mere perception and reflex in the search for truth. Rationality allowed a solitary thinker to blaze a path to philosophical, moral and scientific enlightenment. Now some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1886,1887,1885,1332,359,672,897],"class_list":["post-2139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-consensus","tag-convincing","tag-debate","tag-evolution","tag-philosophy","tag-psychology","tag-theory","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}