Like almost all western thought, Nietzsche's starting point was the need to disprove God, not the recognition that the claim had no support and was thus meaningless. He did not eliminate his need for what could not exist, fell victim to nihilism and became a romantic poet.
I am not a priori committed to reason, I just have a model of the space of results of picking the alternatives.
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Are you then a posteriori committed to reason or would you be agnostic with respect to this as you are with respect to the existence of a real world?
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Yes! For instance, if it turns out that we get better predictions by assuming that we don't live in a world with definite ground truth (like a David Lynch movie), and revelation through telepathic tree stumps works better, we may have to drop reason.
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