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“It is based, however, on a convenient fiction: most reasons are after-the-fact rationalizations. Still, this fictional use of reasons plays a central role in human interactions, from the most trivial to the most dramatic.”

Hugo Mercier, The Enigma of Reason: A New Theory of Human Understanding
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