a reasonable excuse

a legendary, almost mythical and deeply sought after book of excuses , by the slippery author C.A.Woodhouse.

sorry I'm 4 days late from the stag do darling, but I do have 'a reasonable excuse'.

by brentoss March 10, 2024

reason for divorce

marriage

Did you know the main reason for divorce is marriage?

by FamAlt March 24, 2024

Hard Problem of Reason

Closely tied to rationality, but focused on the faculty itself. How can reason, a product of blind evolutionary processes that selected for survival, not truth, be trusted to uncover objective truths about reality? Our brains were shaped to find patterns, avoid predators, and secure mates—not to solve metaphysics. The hard problem is whether reason is a cracked lens that happensto work in our middle-world, or a genuine pipeline to capital-T Truth.

*Example: "Our reason tells us quantum mechanics is true, even though it's utterly unreasonable. The hard problem of reason is wondering if our minds, built to throw spears and spot lions, have any business trusting their conclusions about non-local hidden variables or 11-dimensional strings."*

by Abzugal January 30, 2026

Meta-Reason

The application of reasoning to evaluate and improve our reasoning processes themselves. It's about identifying cognitive biases (like confirmation bias), understanding the limits of heuristics, and choosing the right reasoning tool for the problem. It's what you use when you realize your own argument is getting emotional, so you deliberately step back to assess the evidence more coldly. It's rationality's quality control department.

Example: "He was losing the debate, so he engaged meta-reason: 'Hold on, I'm getting defensive because my identity is tied to this view. Let me steel-man my opponent's argument instead.' He still lost, but he lost with intellectual integrity, which is its own weird nerd victory."

by Abzugal January 30, 2026