Subject: Tags: Spam prevention:Please, enter the code that you see below in the input field. This is for blocking bots that try to post this form automatically. If the code is hard to read, then just try to guess it right. If you enter the wrong code, a new image is created and you get another chance to enter it right.Enter code: Content: KICAS_adm Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Maiko,You showed convincingly that the Yijing > (I like to follow the pinyin romanization) > involves very sophisticated commitment to > mathematics and numbers, and so Chinese > philosophy, derived from the Yijing in one way or > another, qualifies as a fully fledged > rational enterprise, given your initial definition > of rationality.I have two questions, one motivated > by curiosity and another by etymological > concern.First question. Do you personally believe > that rationality is or should be limited to the > sense in which you represented it in your > presentation? Feminist epistemologists would > advocate a much looser understanding (I should > probably not say conception) of rationality that > allows for historical, cultural and gender > variation. I wonder if you would be sympathetic to > this kind of orientation.Second question. I don't > know much at all about the etymology of > rationality, but upon quick googling I have > already come across something that challenges your > move from rationality -> ratio -> > mathematics (powerpoint pg. 3). Here is the > website that I > saw: http://english.stackexchange.com/questio > ns/217956/does-rational-come-from-ratio-or-ratio-c > ome-from-rationalGathering from the conversation > there, it seems that the Latin ratio has both > mathematical and philosophical meanings, and it is > unclear whether they share the same etymology or > which is primary. So to frame the question: Is it > really very clear that rationality is modeled > after, or essentially engaged in, mathematics?You > had 75 slides! Did you manage to go through all of > them in the presentation??Itsuki