Links on Rational Discussion

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Currently, I see that Rationality is all about a very high standard for yourself and for your allies. Worrying about the standard of rationality of enemies and opponents should be a very small part. There is a finite amount of energy, and that energy is best used to keep the self from deluding the self with comfortable ideas.

It is interesting that nobody wants to be seen as irrational, but very few happy assume the burden of a very high standard for rationality for their own thoughts.

John Wilkins - Evolving Thoughts - A Code of Conduct for Effective Rational Discussion

1. The Fallibility Principle
2. The Truth-Seeking Principle
3. The Clarity Principle
4. The Burden of Proof Principle
5. The Principle of Charity
6. The Relevance Principle
7. The Acceptability Principle
8. The Sufficiency Principle
9. The Rebuttal Principle
10. The Resolution Principle
11. The Suspension of Judgement Principle
12. The Reconsideration Principle
13. Fleck’s Addendum

Some of my own posts on Rational Discussion and Rationality:

• The next tack in Climate Disruption denialism - Scientists must be Nihilists
• The difference between Skeptics and Deniers
• Shifting between the genial general and the hard-nosed specific as a form of the "Shell and Pea game" - A juicy example of The Art of Controversy
• Uncertainty is not an argument for the status quo