"Rational" does not mean "right," but "reasoned and logically consistent." (You certainly aren't going to find a solution to the virus-witch problem through phenomenology, given that it is a highly sophisticated form of introspection for which the existence of an objective reality is meaningless in both Husserl's and Heidegger's formulations.) Actually given the assumptions of people who do believe in witches, the witch theory is perfectly rational. They are almost certainly wrong, but that is not the point.
--- Ted Winslow <egwinslow at rogers.com> wrote:
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> The idea that we actually do have available rational
> "foundations" for
> belief has as one of its implications that it's
> possible to find
> rational "foundations" for believing that HIV/AIDS
> is not caused by
> witchcraft and, therefore, can't be prevented by
> murdering "witches."
> The belief that it is and can be isn't "knowledge."
>
> Ted
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