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Written by Dr Emma Kate Ward on 2024-12-29 at 22:15

This feels like an important idea

"what counts as reasonable varies depending on where you are looking from. The further away from the decision makers a decision needs to be accepted, the more transmissible the reasons need to be.

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there may be cases where the limits on what can be explained mean we do have to adjust our reasons. But in most cases, I believe, the long term is best served by fixing on the best reasons, and adjusting our explanations to make them travel as far as they can. It’s another discipline provided by the outside-in view of reason: if we can’t explain ourselves in a way that other people think makes sense, maybe our reasons aren’t any good."

https://substack.com/home/post/p-153601565

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