Thread:User talk:Armondikov/Speaking of rationalists not being rational.../reply

Doesn't "I have been a Rationalist ever since I can remember, and I do not propose to cease to be so whatever appeals to unreason may be made." kind of defy the point? This is stating that, on this topic, you will never change your mind regardless. Therefore you've stated that you can predict the future. Which is certainly not rational... but if you did change your mind when presented with sufficient argument you would still be a rationalist anyway because you changed for a rational reason. But you wouldn't be a rationalist because you changed your mind away from it. So predicting that you will never change... actually, this is why I don't really want to self-identify as "rationalist".