Sublime

the most universal rationalism always stumbles eventually on the irrational of human thought.

But the original meaning of irrational knowledge is simply knowledge gained through our senses rather than through our rational thought processes.

Rationalism has a long and complex history in philosophy. In this book I’ll use the word rationalist to describe anyone who believes that reasoning is the most important and reliable way to obtain moral knowledge.

The world is peopled with such irrationals. The world itself, whose single meaning I do not understand, is but a vast irrational.

advance of progress, and placed in doubt the naïve faith, which I originally shared, that data and knowledge were identical. Even then, the problem was framed by