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What are the factors of subjective reasonableness?

Isaac Shmukler August 03, 2018 at 05:33 3050 views 6 comments
What is the origin of reasonableness?
In other words, what makes a statement sound reasonable?
What are the factors of one's tendency to agree? Is it because of our experience or the way we are born or maybe because of other reasons?
I am not asking what should we consider reasonable enough to rely on, but rather what are the factors of one's subjective reasonableness regardless of whether it should be relied on or not.

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Txastopher August 03, 2018 at 07:00 #202389
Quoting Isaac Shmukler
What is the origin of reasonableness?
In other words, what makes a statement sound reasonable?


Presumably, that the statement has been arrived at by valid logical mechanisms and derives from true premises. In other words, is the product of a sound argument.

This means that a statement is not in itself reasonable, but rather reasonableness is conferred upon it by the means by which it is derived.
Noble Dust August 03, 2018 at 07:10 #202391
Quoting Isaac Shmukler
What is the origin of reasonableness?


A reasonable bedtime.
Isaac Shmukler August 03, 2018 at 07:43 #202401
Reply to Txastopher Obviously logic and mathematics have statements that are more than reasonable. Furthermore, their negation is even inconceivable: x+y=y+x, if the object is round, it is not square and so on.
My interest was in the other types of statement: Rich people are more stressed in their lives. Reading more than 6 hours straight is damaging one's vision and so on (these statements do not belong to the "more than reasonable" area and their negation is not inconceivable).

Txastopher August 03, 2018 at 08:30 #202420
Quoting Isaac Shmukler
My interest was in the other types of statement: Rich people are more stressed in their lives. Reading more than 6 hours straight is damaging one's vision and so on (these statements do not belong to the "more than reasonable" area and their negation is not inconceivable).


So we have deductive, inductive and abductive reasoning. The fact, that not everything is as clear cut as your a priori examples does not mean that reason cannot be applied to other areas. Information is reasonable to the extent that reason has been applied in its derivation, but this doesn't mean that it's true.
raza August 03, 2018 at 08:40 #202424
Quoting Isaac Shmukler
In other words, what makes a statement sound reasonable?


Maybe it is something which is delivered in a calm, therefore reasoned, manner.

It implies to me that a state of reasonableness, even though it may state a specific position, is delivered in such a way that it is inviting of other or opposing viewpoints - and that the person who’s position is being discussed, therefore, appears open to having their mind changed (even if this is not what eventuates, ad it depends on what is presented).
raza August 03, 2018 at 08:42 #202427
Reply to Isaac Shmukler re-edit:

.....even if this is not what MAY eventuate, as it depends on what is presented.