Abstract
Rationality is not about professing beliefs, but about anticipating experiences. It requires cultivating twelve virtues: curiosity to relinquish ignorance; relinquishment of cherished beliefs; lightness to follow the winds of evidence; evenness in evaluating all hypotheses; argument as a communal effort to refine truth; empiricism to ground beliefs in observation and prediction; simplicity to minimize error and burden; humility to anticipate mistakes; perfectionism to correct errors and advance to higher levels of skill; precision in refining and testing beliefs; scholarship to unify knowledge and expand one’s horizons; and the nameless virtue of cutting through to the correct answer with unwavering intention. – AI-generated abstract.
