If you notice, neither the hypothetical cognitivist nor his Freudian counterpart is the acting individual, but rather a third person speculating on that individual.
--- On Fri, 2/20/09, Philip Pilkington <pilkingtonphil at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, but under what conception of rationality? If I'm a
> cognitivist I may
> consider masochistic behavior highly irrational; if I'm
> a Freudian I'll be
> willing to see the highly rational factors governing this
> behavior. Once
> again we touch on the elusive navel...
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