This is an open and shut case, Taoism is harmful to one’s rational faculty.
Compare these two passages, written at approximately the same time in history:
“He who examines the most general features of existence, must investigate also the principles of reasoning. For he who gets the best gasp of his respective subject will be most able to discuss its basic principles. So that he who gets the best grasp of existing things qua existing must be able to discuss the basic principles of all existence; and he is the philosopher. And the most certain principle of all is that about which it is impossible to be mistaken… It is clear, then, that such a principle is the most certain of all and we can state it thus: “It is impossible for the same thing at the same time to belong and not belong to the same thing at the same time and in the same respect.”
-Aristotle, Metaphysics,
now look at this:
The sage never has a mind of his own;
He considers the minds of the common people to be his mind.
To pursue learning, learn more day by day;
To pursue the Way, unlearn it day by day:
Unlearn and then unlearn again
Until there is nothing to pursue;
No end pursued, no end ungained.
It is by sheathing intellect’s bright light
that the sage remains at one with his own self,
ceasing to be aware of it, by placing it behind.
-Lao Tzu “Tao Te Ching”