Already before Galileo we had experiments to determine whether ideas represented reality or not. And in crucial cases, long before that, it meant life or death. This will be clear to engineers.
«Reason» is part of that mechanism of vetting ideas. You experience massive failures without it.
So, no, trained judgement is a real thing, and the presence of innumerable incompetent do not prove an alleged absence of the competent.
«Reason» is part of that mechanism of vetting ideas. You experience massive failures without it.
So, no, trained judgement is a real thing, and the presence of innumerable incompetent do not prove an alleged absence of the competent.