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rationality Definition

ra·tion·al·ity (ras̸h′ə nalə tē)

noun

  1. the quality or condition of being rational; reasonableness or the possession or use of reason
  2. 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

  • belief: It will cover the rationality of religious belief, the function of religious language, the problem of evil and the theology of death.
  • science: First, our faith in the rationality of science may be more an a posteriori matter than an a priori.
rationality Quotes

Appeals to rationality are mostly bluff. There is no good theory of what it is nor of how to recognize it.

—Mellor, D H