Haah! You believe that? Irrational much!
You post an elaborate argument in favor of or against a belief you hold or contest, respectively. Ideally, detractors engaging with the post would provide a clear explanation for their disagreement — be it a logical error or the usage of some insufficiently substantiated premise. Unfortunately, some random person comments something on the lines of “Haah! You believe that? Irrational much!”, referring to the conclusion rather than the reasoning to deduce irrationality.
The usage of “irrational” with the implication of diminished veracity indicates characterizing rationality as being related to truth. In particular, it characterizes the lack of rationality (irrationality) as entailing false beliefs, and possibly the presence of it as entailing true ones.
The present post argues that these characterizations of “rationality” are inherently either contradictory or useless depending on the context, as well as teasing at my argument for the conception of rationality as the affirmation of justified beliefs, which includes the affirmation of uncertainty claims when justified, as well as the rejection of negative ones.
