In one sentence: rationality doesn't tell you what to solve, only how to solve questions you've already framed
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EY wrote extensively about reframing questions. (http://lesswrong.com/lw/of/dissolving_the_question/ … or http://lesswrong.com/lw/og/wrong_questions/ …)
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Dissolving questions and, to an extent, identifying bad ones, fall under rationality.
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Replying to @St_Rev @GrumplessGrinch and
Rationality doesn't tell you how to frame things/form questions, except w/in a bigger frame.
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don't grok the distinction, sorry.
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"This is a good/bad question to ask" falls within rationality.
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Replying to @St_Rev @GrumplessGrinch and
"Formulate good questions/concepts" does *not*. Most of the work lies outside rationality.
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Replying to @St_Rev @GrumplessGrinch and
Having formed a statement, you can use reason to evaluate it. But reason is a poor means...
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...for generating interesting statements.
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