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PRUBONic plague
PPresumptive
RReader
UUnworthiness
BBased
OOn
NNon-Reading
—James W. Thomas
Repotting Harry Potter
Comportment toward Learning
“An’ they haven’t
invented a spell
our Hermione
can’ do.”
—Rubeus Hagrid
CS 116
Discursive Reasoning
“This isn’t magic—it’s logic—a puzzle. A lot of the greatest wizards haven’t got an ounce of logic, they’d be stuck in here forever.”
(SS 285)
Self-Directed Truth-Seeker
Hermione and Harry tuning into “Potterwatch” on the Wizarding
Wireless News Network
Ethics of Belief
Hermione knows when prudential rationality trumps
epistemic rationality.
She rightly judges when the practical application of her
studies—saving the world from Voldemort’s return—
takes precedence over her desire for knowledge for its
own sake.
Ethics of Belief
Hermione also knows that there are “more important
things—[like] friendship and bravery” than her
knowledge.
She is a skeptic who rejects the ideology of
skepticism—whether Pyrrhonian, Academic or
otherwise—that would dissolve all contention-inspiring
beliefs for the sake of ataraxia or the lesser goods.