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Feigning irrationally can

Submitted by aiia on April 15, 2008 - 9:47am.

Feigning irrationally can be used as a rational tactic.

An example:

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/16-03/ff_nuclearwar

 

 

 

Religious faith is noncontingent.

In its broadest philosophical usage a state of affairs is said to be contingent if it may and also may not be.

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