{"id":10909,"date":"2012-01-02T16:50:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T08:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=10909"},"modified":"2012-01-02T16:50:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T08:50:22","slug":"universal-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2012\/01\/universal-reasoning\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10910\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/913.jpg?resize=152%2C136\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/913.jpg?w=237&amp;ssl=1 237w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/913.jpg?resize=96%2C86&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If there is universally accepted reasoning,<br \/>\nthere would be not a single conflict in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The question is whether the deluded can or are willing<br \/>\nto acknowledge sound reasoning to be reasonable,<br \/>\nwhether the less deluded can or are willing to show why it is reasonable.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">(I used to think there&#8217;s no delusion more terrible than self-delusion&#8230; <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">till I encountered self-delusion that seeps over to delude others en masse!)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[The graphic is a joke &#8211; because circular reasoning is almost always faulty.]\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there is universally accepted reasoning, there would be not a single conflict in the world. The question is whether&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[109,477],"class_list":["post-10909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-delusion","tag-reason","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}