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Re:Need for Cognition by optimalsolver on Thursday March 02, 2023 @02:25PM (#35000537)
"Reasonable" is pretty subjective.
Re:Need for Cognition by uoaei on Thursday March 02, 2023 @02:27PM (#35000571)
"Being reasonable" is more or less universally defined as "balancing between parsimony and explainability in a good-faith analysis".

Take it from the entire field of philosophy of science if you won't take it from me.

Re:Need for Cognition by uoaei on Thursday March 02, 2023 @06:47PM (#35003714)
One could make the argument that "good-faith" is subjective, except that would imply that things like logical fallacies cannot exist. However it is true that values frameworks shape how we investigate questions and what we feel comfortable proposing as solutions. Many proposals can be "reasonable" and simultaneously mutually exclusive or even destructive.