Comment by podgorniy

TLDR: Because reality is way more complex than any of its representations.

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If person rationalist they

> prioritizes explicit reasoning, logic, and evidence over intuition, tradition, or emotion.

By sticking to this principle one has to describe every cause-effect, every idea from their speech. Reality is way more complex and detailed than any of it's representations. So rationalist can keep detailing and grounding everything they touch in their speech, and then ground grounds and so on. Sticking to rationalist values you have to write more and ground more.

By cutting corners of explanation and reason rationalist's claims they becoming less rationalist and less acceptable by the group, thus less popular. So the more you're rationalist, more popular you are more you have to write. It's natural way of things.

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Irinically the complete rationalism isn't achievable because Gödel's incompleteness teorem.

> There will always be true statements about symbols that the system can write down, but cannot prove or disprove using its own rules.

They, we all have to draw a logical/grounding line somewhere, either by choice either by incapacity.