If science was "grounded" in Reason it would be 2,000 years older than it is.
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Experimental science dethrones rational intuition about nature. That's what the Renaissance taught.
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Reason isn't reliable for reasoning. It requires techno-realist correction, imposed by geopolitical fragmentation and military / commercial competition.
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... Feedback from actual performance trumps speculative inference. Hence Capitalism.
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Capitalism is laughing at you, at least as hard.
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If you're going to call a distributed selection mechanism that systematically allocates resources to what in fact works "Reason" then your confidence in it will indeed be hard to disturb. ...
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... But if that's the definition, Reason is either coincident with biology, or (as a sociological phenomenon) it's only 500 years old.
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