rationality
rationality
Definition
ra·tion·al·ity (ras̸h′ə nal′ə tē)
noun
- the quality or condition of being rational; reasonableness or the possession or use of reason
- pl. -·ties a rational act, belief, etc.
Etymology: LL(Ec) rationalitas
rationality
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- bound: Instead, the agents possess a form of bounded rationality.
- define: This is a fairly major weakness in this attempt to define rationality in purely objective terms.
- use: Therefore, the Socialist poet need not use the rationality of prose.
- have: Has enough human rationality been captured in these agents to represent the actions of humans in this highly simplified environment?
- undermine: The inconsistency between the stated aims of the incapacity and the waiver applied in some cases undermined the rationality and logic of the measure.
- apply: All he can do perhaps is point to rationality applied to arguing.
Adjective modifier
- moral-practical: This orientation is mainly related to the substantive form of a pure moral-practical rationality.
- cognitive-instrumental/strategic: Thus, he explicitly recognizes and legitimatises the function of cognitive-instrumental/strategic rationality within the frame of the critical social sciences.
- bounded: Modeling Bounded Rationality In Agent-Based Simulations using the Evolution of Mental Models.
- communicative: In any case, communicative rationality provides a complementary function of alternative forms of rationality.
- instrumental: In the end, one might be left with no more than the kernel of instrumental rationality.
- procedural: It is not enough for those who believe in procedural rationality to know what happens, they also want to know how it happens.
Modifies a noun
- assumption: Then we shall break the rationality assumption into parts and consider each part in turn.
- model: This seems to be unrealistically demanding for real-world agents, and therefor bounded rationality models have been proposed.
- constraint: For some examples of some additional rationality constraints, see the next section.
Noun used with modifier
- enlightenment: Tom watches this with an indifference that belongs not to Enlightenment rationality, but to the callousness traditionally attributed to the fairy world.
- market: Like most socialists, the authors are very confused about market rationality.
Preposition: in
- term: This is a fairly major weakness in this attempt to define rationality in purely objective terms.
Preposition: of
rationality Quotes
Appeals to rationality are mostly bluff. There is no good theory of what it is nor of how to recognize it.
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