Re: virus: Re: Social Metaphysics

Paul Prestopnik (pjp66259@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu)
Mon, 29 Sep 1997 14:20:40 -0400


> OK, I'm looking for a noun to describe deviation from the skeptical
position,
> where the degree of belief that X is true of false is not commensurate
with
> the evidence for and against X. Any ideas?

suggest : exdogmatism or just dogmatism (but this often has religious
connotations)

> I'm also looking for adjective to describe behavior that it the same you
> would observe if the behaver is rational agent with reasonable goals. How
> the agent actually generates the behavior is irrelevant to this concept.
> Again, I'm taking suggestions.

suggest : ratiocinative