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Black III 26
Rationality/Popper/Black: (Popper, "Utopia and Violence" in: Conjectures and Refutations, London, 1963, pp. 356-57).
Def Rationalism/Popper: Thesis: A rationalist is someone who seeks to make decisions through arguments and perhaps also through compromise rather than violence.
Rationality/Self-reasoning/ultimate judstification/Popper: my rationalism is not self-contained (not based on itself, not justified by itself) but based on an irrational belief in the attitude of reasonableness. I do not see how one can go beyond that.
>Ultimate justification.
III 27
Rationality/Popper: Rationality is based among other things on the willingness to compromise instead of violence. - It is based on an irrational belief in the attitude of reasonableness.
Rationality/Popper is based, inter alia, on the willingness for a compromise rather than violence - is based on an irrational belief in the attitude of reasonableness. - Popper: "I hate violence". - BlackVsPopper: Popper also provides no grounds against violence. - BlackVsPopper: rationality can be defended quite rationally instead.

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