The ancient Greeks thought rationality, our ability to reason, was the distinguishing feature of humanity. It allowed humans to identify and search for higher truths, allowing us to move beyond the purely physical realm of the natural world. Now, cognitive and social scientists have developed the argumentative theory of reasoning, which suggests that reason evolved to win arguments. Rationality is a function of the evolutionary requirement to persuade.
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